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

[pavanaja]

Namaste,

 

Wkiconference India 2023 starts tomorrow. The home page is here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023 

I have many questions -

*   Where the event is happening?
*   If someone just wants to walk-in, where he/she should go?
*   Sessions are listed. But no details. There could have been link to
the submissions so that we can know what are the details
*   No mention of links to online streaming. No live streaming?

 

I just observed something peculiar about this event. Most details, for ex.,
venue, are kept as secret. What is the necessity to do so? When I travel to
such events, I start posting in social media (FB, Insta, Twitter, Whatsapp
status) about the event, start posting photos from airport itself till end
of event. So far I did not see a single post about the event, the venue, the
goodies, the sessions, etc. What's going on? Whether the organisers have put
a ban on such activities? If that is the case, then it is totally against
the philosophy of free knowledge and open society. 

 

I am just wondering. I am sure many more also will be wondering.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Announcing The Wikiclubs pilot in India

[pavanaja]

Namaste,

 

I would like to bring to the notice of the Wikipedians that we at Karavali 
Wikimedians (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians) have 
formulated the concept and initiated this at two colleges of Karnataka. More 
details are available at this page - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians/Wikipedia_Student_Association
 They are running successfully since 2018.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Kaśyap కశ్యప్  
Sent: 14 November 2022 23:46
To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. 

Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing The Wikiclubs pilot in India

 




Hello Everyone,

I’m pleased to announce Wikiclubs pilots in India.
The WikiClubs pilot aims to enable the creation of WikiClubs at educational 
institutions in India. The pilot project is a joint effort between IIIT 
Hydrabad and Wikimedia foundation and will be led by IIIT Hyderabad and 
supported by the Foundation.  In the program, the participants will be expected 
to start WikiClubs at their respective institutions, to contribute to the 
growth and diversification of culture and heritage sources on Wikisource and 
Wikimedia Commons in India, especially targeted around Andhra Pradesh and 
Telangana states of India, for more details visit 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiClubs_pilot_in_India

Sincerely
Kasyap (he/him) 
IndicWiki Project Team - IIIT-H

9014120442  ,  kasyap.kru...@research.iiit.ac.in 
<mailto:kasyap.kru...@research.iiit.ac.in>  

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Registration Link: Wikimedia Technology Training program - 2022

[pavanaja]

Can I get the detailed agenda? I would like to know the topics and days on 
which those topics will be taken up. With this info I will be in a better 
position to decide on whether to register or not.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Kaśyap కశ్యప్  
Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2022 12:40 PM
To: mediawiki-in...@lists.wikimedia.org; Discussion list on Indian language 
projects of Wikimedia. 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Registration Link: Wikimedia Technology Training 
program - 2022

 

Hi, 

 

Greetings, We are delighted to inform you about the Free Wikimedia Technology 
Training - 2022.  We’re hosting a series of  online training sessions from 7:00 
PM - 8:30 PM IST scheduled every weekend (Saturday & Sunday) from 10th 
September to 14th November 2022. This training helps the volunteers interested 
in learning WikiTech from the basics and open to technophiles, CS Students and 
professionals. 

Registration Link:   <https://forms.gle/ueFersfQXiKDyAKY6> 
https://forms.gle/ueFersfQXiKDyAKY6  

Advantages 

*   Training by Wikimedia stakeholders who have hands-on experience in 
technical volunteering.  
*   MediaWiki services provide a rich core feature set and a mechanism to 
attach extensions to provide additional functionality. 
*   The Wikimedia movement is the totality of people, activities, and 
values which revolve around Wikimedia sites and projects with  
*   Learn to build powerful extensions, and packages, which lets you build 
whole applications on top of the platform. 
*   The principles of free cultural works mean that anyone can use 
Wikimedia without restriction, including commercially.  
*   Participants who have successfully completed training will be invited 
to participate in the Wikitech hackathon 2022, and certificates will be 
provided.   

 

The object of these training programs is to promote the use of software 
resources that extend content contributors' and consumers' capabilities and 
insights beyond those provided by the core wiki experience.

Please feel free to contact   <mailto:indicw...@iiit.ac.in> 
indicw...@iiit.ac.in if you need any more information.

 

Note: The registration will be open until 23:59 hrs IST on 08 September 2022.

 

We'd love to have your involvement and support. 

 

 

Cordially

Kasyap

IndicWiki Project Team  

9014120442  

kasyap.kru...@research.iiit.ac.in <mailto:kasyap.kru...@research.iiit.ac.in>  

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] 2nd Regional Education Meeting-South Asia

[pavanaja]

Where is today’s event page with agenda and speakers’ names?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Sailesh Patnaik  
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2022 1:24 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] 2nd Regional Education 
Meeting-South Asia

 

Hi everyone,

Greetings from the Education team. I am writing this email to invite you all 
for the second South Asia Regional Education meeting. Join us tomorrow 27th 
March at 5:00 PM (IST), listen to the speakers, and also please feel free to 
bring your topics for discussion during the meeting. 

You can find the link to Zoom meeting and agenda in the Meta page:  
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Regional_Meeting/South_Asia> 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Regional_Meeting/South_Asia

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow, please let me know if you have any 
questions. 

Best!
Sailesh

 

-- Forwarded message -
From: Sandeep Kaur mailto:medfrompun...@gmail.com> >
Date: Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 9:56 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] 2nd Regional Education Meeting-South Asia
To: mailto:educat...@lists.wikimedia.org> >, 
mailto:wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >



Dear Wikimedians,

We are inviting you to the 2nd Regional Education Meeting. This month, we
are meeting with community members based in the South Asia region. These
regional office hours serve as an opportunity to learn and share projects,
tools, or ideas with the education community from the region.

Regional education meetings are planned by the community specialists
of the EduWiki
Outreach Collaborators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators>
(EWOC) and the Wikimedia Education Team. This is an opportunity to
strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and
identify common practices or challenges that are faced by our community
members in different regions of the world. We encourage you to participate,
share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led initiative.

Our second South Asia regional education meeting will take place on 27th
March 2022 at 17:00 IST. The session will be led by Sandeep, South Asia
EWOC Community Specialist. If you want to volunteer to interpret this
meeting for your community members in a local language, please let us know.

During this regional education meeting, we will have the opportunity to
learn more about:

   -

   Education Initiatives in Bangladesh- Mrb Rafi
   -

   Project Details and WikiEdu Experience- Pavanja
   -

   Special Highlight- Jassu Gill
   -

   Education Activities in School of Maharashtra- Dr. Aaryaa Joshi
   -

   Education Initiatives and challenges- Jagseer S Sidhu



Theme: Our work in Education.

If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add
them to the agenda here.
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Regional_Education_Meet> We
will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to
seeing you there!  This event will be livestreamed from Wikimedia
Foundation Education Team’s Facebook Page
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam>. You can also join the
event through the Zoom link, meeting link is available on our event page.

Best!

Sandeep, EWOC Community Specialist Team, and Education team
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-- 

 




Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)

Program Officer, Education

 <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Wikimedia Foundation 

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Invitation: Movement Strategy Implementation Grants (MSIG) Call for Wikimedians of India - 18 December 2021 (Saturday)

[pavanaja]

Namaste,

 

I will be traveling to native place and hence can’t participate. Please share 
the recordings.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Chitraparna Sinha  
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2021 6:58 PM
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation: Movement Strategy Implementation Grants 
(MSIG) Call for Wikimedians of India - 18 December 2021 (Saturday)

 

Hello everyone, 

 

I am Chitraparna Sinha <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)> , 
the community facilitator of Movement Strategy 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy>  for South Asia after 
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga. 

 

I would like to invite Wikimedians of India for a getting to know each other 
session and discuss Movement Strategy Implementation Grants 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:MSIG/About>  (MSIG), and how it can 
fund your projects surrounding Movement Strategy Initiatives 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Initiatives> . 

 

Proposed Agenda

 

*   Introduction with each other & learn about what all is going on in the 
community; and how I can support the community to grow. 
*   A brief overview of MSIG (what it is & how it will work) & discuss 
concerns. 

 

Meeting Language

 

English / Hindi / Bangla - this could be a multilingual conversation. 

 

Meeting Details:

 

(India) Grants Community Conversation

Saturday, December 18 · 6:00 – 7:00 pm IST (12:30 to 13:30 UTC)

Google Meet joining info

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/oug-bfih-vva

Or dial: ‪(US) +1 415-604-0877 PIN: ‪951 921 494#

More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/oug-bfih-vva?pin=4923022866600

 

Please share the message among community members. Thanks for sharing your 
valuable time. 

 

Regards,

 




Chitraparna Sinha (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)> )

Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> , SAARC,  
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Wikimedia Foundation

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Fwd: Internet Support for Wikimedians in India 2021

[pavanaja]

Namaste,

 

The page for which you gave the link, does not specify what kind of support 
will be provided. Please do specify that along with the amount up to which the 
support will be provided.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Nitesh Gill  
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 10:58 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Fwd: Internet Support for 
Wikimedians in India 2021

 

Hello everyone, 

Hope you are doing well. As you know Internet Support Program for Indian 
Wikimedian is running from 1 June. Now, after three months, we are taking a 
break from the program on 31 August for the assessment. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet_support_for_Wikimedians_in_India


Please note after 31 August requests will not be accepted.

Thank you
Nitesh Gill

 

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:18 PM Dhaval S. Vyas mailto:dsv...@gmail.com> > wrote:

 

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From: Nitesh Gill mailto:gillte...@gmail.com> >
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021, 17:08
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Internet Support for Wikimedians in India 2021
To: Wikimedia India Community list mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >

 

Hello all,

 

We hope that you are doing well. We wanted to inform you that A2K is going to 
initiate an internet support program for the Wikimedians in India from 1 June 
2021. This will continue till 31 August 2021. It will be a part of Project 
Tiger, this time we are starting with the internet support, writing contest and 
other things that will follow afterwards. Currently in this first phase 
applications for the Internet will be accepted.

An event page has been started, you can visit the link: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet_support_for_Wikimedians_in_India

You may also see the FAQ section: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet_support_for_Wikimedians_in_India#Frequently_Asked_Questions_(FAQ)


For reviewing the applications, there will be a committee that will make 
decisions for the applications. After the committee's response, support will be 
provided. For more information please visit the event page (linked above). The 
criteria and application procedure is set up already. Please go through the 
page and apply if you find you are eligible for applying. Please also share 
this information with your community.

Stay safe, stay connected,

 

Thanks & Regards, 

Nitesh Gill

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021: Important Updates

[pavanaja]

Opps! I missed it. Thanks

 

I agree. 5000 is a big number.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 10:56 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021: Important Updates

 

Yes, at 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Registration#Instant_registration

 

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:54 AM mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Hello KC,

 

Where is the condition of 5000 global edits mentioned in the instant 
registration page?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > On Behalf Of Krishna 
Chaitanya Velaga
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 10:46 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021: Important Updates

 

Hi Bodhi,

 

Thanks for sharing the updates, and the program has interesting sessions.

 

I just feel that the eligibility threshold for instant registration is too high 
- 5,000 global edits is too high for instant registration. I believe it can be 
lowered, especially since it is an online event, and won't add too much to the 
costs. My reasoning is last minute registration may generally be by people who 
are not very involved, and may not know about the event. People from other 
movement-aligned groups such as Creative Commons, Mozilla or even GLAM 
institutions might want to attend, expecting them to have a lot of edits might 
not be reasonable. A lot of newcomers may also get excluded with this.

 

Please see if this can be reconsidered.

 

Best,

KC.

 

 

 

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:45 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal mailto:bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Hello all,

 

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 is going to start the day after tomorrow and we 
have some updates for you.

*   The event will have the opening speech from Asaf Bartov, the title 
being "India: Looking back, looking ahead". Asaf has been observing and 
supporting Wikimedia efforts in India since 2009, first as a volunteer, and 
later as a Wikimedia Foundation grants program officer and capacity builder. In 
this talk, he will offer some thoughts on the Indian Wikimedia journey so far, 
and on the road that still lies ahead, from his perspective. Please find the 
entire program schedule here - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Program
*   We closed the registration of participation yesterday. However, for the 
experienced WIkimedians, who have missed that deadline due to whatsoever 
reason, we have kept the option for instant registration at the last minute. 
For more details, please check here - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Registration#Instant_registration
*   We have sent necessary details and links to join the event to all 
selected participants. Please check your spam folders, if you have not found 
our mail. For any query, please reach out to us at  w...@cis-india.org 
<mailto:w...@cis-india.org> 

Regards,

Bodhisattwa

On behalf of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021

 

 


 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021: Important Updates

[pavanaja]

Hello KC,

 

Where is the condition of 5000 global edits mentioned in the instant 
registration page?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 10:46 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021: Important Updates

 

Hi Bodhi,

 

Thanks for sharing the updates, and the program has interesting sessions.

 

I just feel that the eligibility threshold for instant registration is too high 
- 5,000 global edits is too high for instant registration. I believe it can be 
lowered, especially since it is an online event, and won't add too much to the 
costs. My reasoning is last minute registration may generally be by people who 
are not very involved, and may not know about the event. People from other 
movement-aligned groups such as Creative Commons, Mozilla or even GLAM 
institutions might want to attend, expecting them to have a lot of edits might 
not be reasonable. A lot of newcomers may also get excluded with this.

 

Please see if this can be reconsidered.

 

Best,

KC.

 

 

 

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 9:45 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal mailto:bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Hello all,

 

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 is going to start the day after tomorrow and we 
have some updates for you.

*   The event will have the opening speech from Asaf Bartov, the title 
being "India: Looking back, looking ahead". Asaf has been observing and 
supporting Wikimedia efforts in India since 2009, first as a volunteer, and 
later as a Wikimedia Foundation grants program officer and capacity builder. In 
this talk, he will offer some thoughts on the Indian Wikimedia journey so far, 
and on the road that still lies ahead, from his perspective. Please find the 
entire program schedule here - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Program
*   We closed the registration of participation yesterday. However, for the 
experienced WIkimedians, who have missed that deadline due to whatsoever 
reason, we have kept the option for instant registration at the last minute. 
For more details, please check here - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Registration#Instant_registration
*   We have sent necessary details and links to join the event to all 
selected participants. Please check your spam folders, if you have not found 
our mail. For any query, please reach out to us at  w...@cis-india.org 
<mailto:w...@cis-india.org> 

Regards,

Bodhisattwa

On behalf of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021

 

 


 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wiki20 logo

[pavanaja]

I created these for Kannada – 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki20-kn-01.svg 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki20-kn-02.svg 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki20-kn-03.svg 

 

Please check and give your feedback.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Rajeeb
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:23 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wiki20 logo

 

Just to add where Subhashish left, I found one more symbol relevant to South 
Asia/India on the list. Yes, I too planning to work on creating one or two.

 

1. Rangoli:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_RANGOLI.svg 

 

Namaste,

 

Rajeeb.

 

 

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 23:48, Subhashish mailto:psubhash...@gmail.com> > wrote:

I found some [1, 2, 3, 4] if not many but these sample graphics seem to be 
commissioned by Wikimedia Foundation whereas there is certainly scope [5] for 
creating more that are more relevant to South Asia/India. I personally want to 
create some.

 

1. Henna/mehendi: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_MEHNDI.svg

2. Bengali text Gyama: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_GHYAMA.svg

3. Wikimedia Incubator including the Devanagari text Nepali: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_WIKI_INCUBATOR.svg

4. Symbol Hamsa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_HAMSA.svg 

5. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Material#Making_your_own_birthday_symbol

 

Subhashish

 

 

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:28 PM mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Namaste,

 

I hope everyone knows Wikipedia will complete 20 years on Jan 15, 2021. Heavy 
preparations are going on to celebrate it. There are many graphics & logos 
created for this purpose and are available at - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Material and 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20_symbols. But I did not 
find any Indic/India specific logos/graphics. Anyone is working on this?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wiki20 logo

[pavanaja]

I had already seen these. They are mostly Indic symbols but nothing specific to 
Wiki20. Why not create Wiki20 in each Indian language?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Rajeeb
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:23 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wiki20 logo

 

Just to add where Subhashish left, I found one more symbol relevant to South 
Asia/India on the list. Yes, I too planning to work on creating one or two.

 

1. Rangoli:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_RANGOLI.svg 

 

Namaste,

 

Rajeeb.

 

 

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 at 23:48, Subhashish mailto:psubhash...@gmail.com> > wrote:

I found some [1, 2, 3, 4] if not many but these sample graphics seem to be 
commissioned by Wikimedia Foundation whereas there is certainly scope [5] for 
creating more that are more relevant to South Asia/India. I personally want to 
create some.

 

1. Henna/mehendi: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_MEHNDI.svg

2. Bengali text Gyama: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_GHYAMA.svg

3. Wikimedia Incubator including the Devanagari text Nepali: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_WIKI_INCUBATOR.svg

4. Symbol Hamsa: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP20Symbols_HAMSA.svg 

5. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Material#Making_your_own_birthday_symbol

 

Subhashish

 

 

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:28 PM mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Namaste,

 

I hope everyone knows Wikipedia will complete 20 years on Jan 15, 2021. Heavy 
preparations are going on to celebrate it. There are many graphics & logos 
created for this purpose and are available at - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Material and 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20_symbols. But I did not 
find any Indic/India specific logos/graphics. Anyone is working on this?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wiki20 logo

[pavanaja]

Namaste,

 

I hope everyone knows Wikipedia will complete 20 years on Jan 15, 2021.
Heavy preparations are going on to celebrate it. There are many graphics &
logos created for this purpose and are available at -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Material and
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20_symbols. But I did
not find any Indic/India specific logos/graphics. Anyone is working on this?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webinar: Possible modes of engagement of Wiki Communities with NDLI

[pavanaja]

December 1, 2021 ?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Bodhisattwa Mandal
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:46 PM
To: wikimediaindia-l 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webinar: Possible modes of engagement of Wiki 
Communities with NDLI

 

Hi all,

 

You might know, that National Digital Library of India (NDLI)[1] has signed a 
memorandum of understanding with CIS-A2K and WMF early this year, for future 
collaboration to enrich open knowledge platforms on Wikimedia sites, focussing 
on Wikidata and Wikisource. The intended collaborative activities were stalled 
since then due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

 

On December 1, 2021, Sunday from 6 pm to 8 pm IST, NDLI would like to introduce 
themselves and discuss possible modes of engagement between the Wikimedia 
community and themselves.

 

If you would like to join the conversation, please block the dates. The link of 
the video platform will be shared soon.

 

Regards,

Bodhisattwa

Wikidata coordintor, CIS-A2K

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Mass uploading to commons

[pavanaja]

Namaste,

 

I have created 476 files of animated GIFs of Kannada gunithaksharas. These
are extensions of the animations found in this page -
https://kn.wikipedia.org/s/ap. How do I do this other than manually
uploading them?

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat and India(n) channel

[pavanaja]

I created channels – kannada and tulu

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Tito Dutta
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2020 11:05 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat and India(n) 
channel

 

Hello,

I hope you might find this interesting. In case you join/wanna try this 
Wikimedia Chat option, please join the India channel

https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/india

 

There is also an mlwiki channel, I see:

https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/mlwiki

 

There is also a Bangla channel. I am unsure why it is currently not showing in 
the channel list (is it because of Indic-script in the channel title?)

https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/bangla

 

Thanks 

Tito Dutta

 

-- Forwarded message -
প্রেরক: Amir Sarabadani <ইমেল লোকানো হয়েছে>
Date: রবি, ৩০ আগস্ট, ২০২০ তারিখে ৫:৩০ AM টায়
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat
To: Wikimedia Mailing List mailto:wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >, wikitech-l 
mailto:wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> >



Hello,
Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations
happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related discussion
groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and many more. Besides being
scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those
platforms (for privacy reasons for example), these platforms use
proprietary and closed-source software, are outside Wikimedia
infrastructure and some harvest our personal data for profit.

IRC on freenode is a good alternative but it lacks basic functionalities of
a modern chat platform. So we created Wikimedia Chat, a mattermost instance
in Wikimedia Cloud. Compared to IRC, you have:
* Ability to scrollback and read messages when you were offline
* Push notification and email notification
* You don't need to get a cloak to hide your IP from others
* Proper support for sharing media
* Two factor authentication
* A proper mobile app support
* Ability to add custom emojis (yes, it's extremely important)
* Profile pictures
* Ability to ping everyone with @here
* much much more.

You can use Wikimedia Chat by going to https://chat.wmcloud.org, anyone can
make an account. This is part of Wikimedia Social suite [1], the oher
similar project is "Wikimedia Meet". [2]

Some notes:
* This is done in my volunteer capacity and has been maintained by a group
of volunteers. If you're willing to join the team (either technical or
enforcing CoC, kicking out spammers, other daily work), drop me a message.
* Privacy policy of Wikimedia Cloud applies: https://w.wiki/aQW
* As a result, all messages older than 90 days get automatically deleted.
* As a Wikimedia Cloud project, all of discussions, private and public are
covered by Code of conduct in technical spaces:  https://w.wiki/AK$

Hope that would be useful for you, if you encounter any technical issues,
file a bug in the phabricator.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Social_Suite
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet

Best
-- 
Amir (he/him)
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[Wikimediaindia-l] 4th Anniversary of Tulu Wikipedia

[pavanaja]

Dear All,

 

Karavali Wikimedians and Tulu Wikipedia community celebrating 4th
anniversary of Tulu Wikipedia on Aug 06, 2020 at 4:15pm. Watch live at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86wFeNQtZU 

Event page in Meta -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians/Events/Tulu_Wikipedia_B
irthday_2020 

Event page in Tulu Wikipedia - https://tcy.wikipedia.org/s/4xc 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] 4th Anniversary of Tulu Wikipedia

[pavanaja]

Dear All,

 

Karavali Wikimedians and Tulu Wikipedia community celebrating 4th
anniversary of Tulu Wikipedia on Aug 06, 2020 at 4pm. Watch live at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E86wFeNQtZU 

Event page in Meta -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians/Events/Tulu_Wikipedia_B
irthday_2020 

Event page in Tulu Wikipedia - https://tcy.wikipedia.org/s/4xc 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM-wiki contractor opportunity at Wikimedia Foundation

[pavanaja]

Hi,

 

Why this job is not listed here - https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/ ?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Satdeep Gill
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2020 8:07 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM-wiki contractor opportunity at Wikimedia 
Foundation

 

Hello,

 

The  <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a 
part-time temporary contractor to work remotely for 20 hours a week from August 
or September until June 2021. The contractor will support movement allies, 
affiliates, and organizers interested in bringing high impact collections to 
Wikimedia projects. The hourly rate is up to $55 (USD).

 

We’d like you to do these things:

* Mentor a cohort of cultural institutions making large content contributions 
to develop shared practices for Structured Data on Commons, particularly for 
captions and copyright statements.

* Take part in monthly office hours for the wider Wikimedia-GLAM community.

* Analyze and document innovations and workflows, in order to inform and 
inspire Wikimedia communities and staff.

* Actively monitor communications to support the Wikimedia-GLAM community to 
stay in touch, network, document, and exchange practices.

* Facilitate information sharing and product alignment with volunteers 
maintaining software for GLAM-Wiki projects, such as OpenRefine, pywikibot, and 
Pattypan. 

 

We’re looking for someone with these skills:

* A practical understanding of using linked open data and broad open platforms 
for sharing collections, including active use of Wikidata and/or Wikimedia 
Commons.

* Comfortable wrangling data with some experience scripting and using command 
line tools.

* A good track record of promoting digital skills development or shared 
practices through social media, written case studies, conference presentations, 
and/or workshop facilitation. 

* Comfort working with product teams and supporting products in an open, 
networked ecosystem, through documentation and community consultation.

* Experience working with a distributed and remote team with people of diverse 
skill sets and backgrounds.

* Strong written and spoken English.

 

And it would be even more awesome if you have:

* Proficiency in languages other than English.

* An existing network of collaborators and contacts in international open 
knowledge, cultural heritage communities, or in the Wikimedia community.

* Experience working with communities that are not based in Europe or North 
America.


Please send a cover letter and CV or LinkedIn profile to  
<mailto:g...@wikimedia.org> g...@wikimedia.org by Friday 7 August.  


 

-- 

 




 

Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)

Program Officer

GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge

Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>  

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikiml-l] Needs assessment for Wikidata Movement Resource

[pavanaja]

This is the message that I got –

 

Wikidata Movement Resources needs-assessment form

The form Wikidata Movement Resources needs-assessment form is no longer 
accepting responses.
Try contacting the owner of the form if you think that this is a mistake.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikiml-l  On Behalf Of Ananth Subray
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 1:13 PM
To: wikim...@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikiml-l] Needs assessment for Wikidata Movement Resource

 

Hello Wikimedians,

CIS-A2K is planning to invest some resources from May-June 2020 to create 
community movement resource (CMR) materials in English and different Indic 
languages for Wikidata in the form of tutorials, handbooks, infographics, 
videos, animations etc. The aim of this initiative is to build a pool of 
resource materials for Wikidata eventually, which will serve as ready-made 
handy references for new as well as experienced users. You are requested to 
fill up this form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqSEoYLfjlIgDLOTlkDcLF9xDlHYfgkJIQkSiRZhFAsX2EPQ/viewform>
  so that we can understand your needs on different topics of Wikidata. You are 
also very welcome to actively participate in the process and help us build the 
CMR with your different areas of expertise. 

Thanks and Regards,

ANANTH SUBRAY P V

Programme Officer

Access to Knowledge Programme <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k> 

The Centre for Internet & Society

+91-9739811664

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update about TTT selection

[pavanaja]

I have requested CIS-A2K to come out with the selection  criteria, how they 
have selected some and rejected some applicants. You may also join - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2020#Criteria_for_selection_and_rejection

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni  
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 4:00 PM
To: Vishwanatha Badikana 
Cc: Pavanaja U B ; Bharathesha A B ; Dr. 
Manavpreet Kaur ; Kavitha Ganesh 
; Dhanalakshmi K. T. ; Rohini 
Lakshané ; Kannada Wikipedia Discussion List 
; Wikimedia India Community list 
; subodhki...@gmail.com; Vikas Hegde 
; vinoda jaya prasad 
Subject: Re: Update about TTT selection

 

I agree with you. 


 

Best Regards,

 

Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni

Principal, Sri Ramakrishna Pre-University College,

Bunts Hostel Mangaluru 575 003

Mob: +91 9449592380 / +91 8073922597





 

 

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 15:26, Vishwanatha Badikana mailto:badikan...@gmail.com> > wrote:

What is going on the TTT Selection.  I don't want future TTT selection.  The 
Kannada Community members depressed.  I think the selection committee have lot 
of politics.  Who are the selection committee?  

 

 

-- Forwarded message -
From: subodh kulkarni mailto:subodhki...@gmail.com> >
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 22:14
Subject: Update about TTT selection
To: 

 

Dear applicant,

 

We are thankful for showing interest to participate in TTT 2020. We are sorry 
to inform you that your application was not selected in the process. 

We value your contribution to the Wikimedia movement and looking forward to 
work with you in future.

 

regards,

 

Subodh Kulkarni 

on behalf of

Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme



-- 

Dr. Vishwanatha Badikana

Assistent Professor, Department of Kannada

St. Aloysius College(Autonomous), Light House Hill, Mangalore - 575 003
9449615474, 9141676453, 8618361841

badikan...@gmail.com <mailto:badikan...@gmail.com> 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Update about TTT selection

[pavanaja]

I think this email did not reach the India mailing list. Hence I am fwd-ing it.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

From: Vishwanatha Badikana  
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 3:26 PM
To: kishoresheni69 ; Pavanaja U B 
; Bharathesha A B ; Dr. Manavpreet Kaur 
; Kavitha Ganesh ; Dhanalakshmi 
K. T. ; Rohini Lakshané ; 
Kannada Wikipedia Discussion List ; Wikimedia 
India Community list ; 
subodhki...@gmail.com; Vikas Hegde ; vinoda jaya prasad 

Subject: Fwd: Update about TTT selection

 

What is going on the TTT Selection.  I don't want future TTT selection.  The 
Kannada Community members depressed.  I think the selection committee have lot 
of politics.  Who are the selection committee?  

 

 

-- Forwarded message -
From: subodh kulkarni mailto:subodhki...@gmail.com> >
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 22:14
Subject: Update about TTT selection
To: 

 

Dear applicant,

 

We are thankful for showing interest to participate in TTT 2020. We are sorry 
to inform you that your application was not selected in the process. 

We value your contribution to the Wikimedia movement and looking forward to 
work with you in future.

 

regards,

 

Subodh Kulkarni 

on behalf of

Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme



-- 

Dr. Vishwanatha Badikana

Assistent Professor, Department of Kannada

St. Aloysius College(Autonomous), Light House Hill, Mangalore - 575 003
9449615474, 9141676453, 8618361841

badikan...@gmail.com <mailto:badikan...@gmail.com> 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020

[pavanaja]

Hi,

 

This does not look like a real reason. Because there is no such thing going in 
the country which makes to think about deciding on a venue.

 

Probably CIS is thinking to decide on a venue depending on the number of 
participants close to a venue. But as Balaji rightly said, people are thinking 
of applying depending on the venue. This is a kind of Catch-22 situation. But I 
suggest CIS to announce the venue first.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of subodh kulkarni
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:16 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020

 

Thanks Balaji for raising this point. 

We are in a process to finalise venue. Due to ongoing events in the country, we 
had to re-think our previous plans. We shall notify about the venue in 4-5 days.

 

regards,

 

Subodh  

Programme Officer

Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme

 

 

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 7:36 PM balaji mailto:balajijagad...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Please finalize the location of training soon. Better if before the final date 
to apply. Many need to consider logistics, mobility issues, number of travel 
days before and after the training. It's hard to assume blind faith from 
applicants that they should be ready where ever the final location. 

 

Regards,

J. Balaji.

 

On Mon, 20 Jan, 2020, 5:48 PM Tito Dutta, mailto:trulyt...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Thanks for pointing that out, It is generally the last date of the last month 
before announcing. We are correcting it to 31 December 2019. Upcoming 
notificationson village pumps etc.will have this information.


 

Thanks 

Tito Dutta

Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me 
over email or phone call.

 

 

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 17:26, mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Hello,

 

Under selection criteria, I noticed this-

An editor with at least 800 edits on zero-namespace before 31 October 2019.

 

Why Oct 31, 2019? Since the notice has come out today, it can be till today or 
end of last month. I have a reason to say this. Many people got laptops and/or 
Internet connections as part of Project Tiger in Nov 2019. I am sure at least 
some have increased their edit count heavily due to this. Hence the cut-off 
date should be changed.

 

Regards, 

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > On Behalf Of subodh 
kulkarni
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 1:59 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020

 

Hello Wikimedians,

 

CIS-A2K is glad to announce Train the Trainer programme 2020 (TTT 2020) from 28 
February - 1 March 2020. This is the 7th iteration of this programme. We are 
grateful to all the community members, resource persons for their consistent 
enthusiasm to participate and support. We expect this to continue as before.

 

Please see the event page for more details here - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2020

 

The important dates are as follows - 

* Main event : 28, 29 Feb & 1 Mar (Participants are expected to reach before 5 
pm on 27 February i.e. Day 0)

* Last date of registration - 5 February 2020

 

Please share this information widely among the Wikimedians.

 

regards,

 

Subodh Kulkarni

Programme Officer

Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020

[pavanaja]

Hello,

 

Under selection criteria, I noticed this-

An editor with at least 800 edits on zero-namespace before 31 October 2019.

 

Why Oct 31, 2019? Since the notice has come out today, it can be till today or 
end of last month. I have a reason to say this. Many people got laptops and/or 
Internet connections as part of Project Tiger in Nov 2019. I am sure at least 
some have increased their edit count heavily due to this. Hence the cut-off 
date should be changed.

 

Regards, 

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of subodh kulkarni
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 1:59 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020

 

Hello Wikimedians,

 

CIS-A2K is glad to announce Train the Trainer programme 2020 (TTT 2020) from 28 
February - 1 March 2020. This is the 7th iteration of this programme. We are 
grateful to all the community members, resource persons for their consistent 
enthusiasm to participate and support. We expect this to continue as before.

 

Please see the event page for more details here - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2020

 

The important dates are as follows - 

* Main event : 28, 29 Feb & 1 Mar (Participants are expected to reach before 5 
pm on 27 February i.e. Day 0)

* Last date of registration - 5 February 2020

 

Please share this information widely among the Wikimedians.

 

regards,

 

Subodh Kulkarni

Programme Officer

Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Community Engagement Survey

[pavanaja]

Hi,

 

Why there is no Tulu in the list of languages?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of pavan santhosh
Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:09 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Community Engagement 
Survey

 

Hello everyone,

 

I hope everyone is doing great.

 

I am writing this email to invite you all to participate in the Community 
Engagement Survey for WikiConference India 2020. The Community Engagement 
Survey is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event Grant 
application for the Wikimedia Foundation. 

 

The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your 
experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for WCI 
2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is expected 
out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly. Please note that 
this will not directly influence the specificities of the program, there will 
be a detailed survey to assess the program needs after funding. 

 

Please fill the survey at;  <https://forms.gle/YkA9UfcbXo3c637M6> 
https://forms.gle/YkA9UfcbXo3c637M6. The survey will be open until 23:59 hrs of 
22 December 2019.

 

Please pass on this message to your community mailing lists, and it would be 
great if you post on the Village Pumps of your local Wikis. Looking forward to 
all of your active participation.

 

Let me know if there are any questions.

 

Best wishes,

Pavan Santhosh.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Closure of initial conversations and next steps

[pavanaja]

The page  “WikiConference India Facebook page 
https://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/ 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D157347244461&sa=D&ust=1573472444622000&usg=AFQjCNHY6YEWXktq0avI9o-RAfmSAntT9g>
  “ does not exist.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of pavan santhosh
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2019 4:19 PM
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Closure of initial 
conversations and next steps

 

Hello everyone,

It is well known for many of us that the initial conversations for 
WikiConference India 2020[1] started on 2 October 2019. It has been around 40 
days (~7 weeks) since then. The support received from both individual 
Wikimedians and language communities has been incredible, and we are very much 
delighted to witness this. During this period, 91 Wikimedians[2] endorsed the 
proposal and 14 language communities[3] have held separate discussions about 
this on their local village pumps, and officially endorsed the proposal as a 
community.

As there was an almost consensus, we held an IRC on 20 October 2019 to clarify 
questions and address concerns community members may have. It was attended by 
28 people at peak point, and several queries have been clarified[4]. Post IRC, 
we took time to address all the outstanding comments by various Wikimedians on 
the talk page — all of which are now resolved[5]. Finally, acknowledging the 
response from the larger Indian Wikimedia community, Wikimedians from Andhra 
Pradesh and Telangana passed a resolution on Telugu Wikipedia to formally take 
responsibility of the conference and go forward with the next steps[6]. The 
same has been communicated on the Meta-Wiki proposal page here[7].

We are considering this as the closure of initial conversations and would like 
to proceed with the next steps involved. We thank everyone who participated in 
the discussions related to this proposal, and all of them have been helpful to 
expand our knowledge in organising a better conference.

The next major step is the Conference Grant proposal to WMF. There are several 
other smaller steps involved before going submitting proposal, such as the 
Community Engagement Survey. We will get back to you with the survey soon, and 
this will be crucial to develop the grant application or more importantly shape 
the program of WCI 2020 — we look forward to all of your active participation 
in this regard.

Also before finally submitting the proposal to WMF, we will notify the 
community after drafting the proposal and keep it for review (including the 
budget) for at least 2 weeks, which will most probably be around mid-Jan 2020.

Apart from the major announcements, we would like to shift our communication to 
people interested in WCI 2020 only — we mean that this mailing list might not 
be the right place to post regular updates. In this regard, community members 
who wish to receive regular updates regarding WCI 2020 please subscribe 
yourself to one of the following WCI exclusive communication channels. Few of 
these still talk WCI 2016, they will soon be updated to reflect the latest 
changes.

1.  1. WikiConference India mailing list: 
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1573472444609000&sa=D&ust=1573472444621000&usg=AFQjCNEHwKr4nl168lL7JRVRvsw0xyeykg>
 
2.  2. on-Wiki talk page message delivery: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WCI2020 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WCI2020%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D157347244461&sa=D&ust=1573472444622000&usg=AFQjCNELwilQPuEpDoNmrowEDM4X25Bezw>
 
3.  3. WikiConference India Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/ 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D157347244461&sa=D&ust=1573472444622000&usg=AFQjCNHY6YEWXktq0avI9o-RAfmSAntT9g>
 

Thank you all again for your enormous support and active participation.

Regards,

Pavan Santhosh and Krishna Chaitanya,

on behalf of Wikimedians from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
 
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1573472444612000&sa=D&ust=1573472444622000&usg=AFQjCNEiFCosBhkAmiqIlzi8AsBYzZYaxA>
 

[2]  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_Indi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Hardware support recipients list

[pavanaja]

User: Lokesha kunchadka has been banned from Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias for a 
month for unruly behaviour, using foul language on admin (Tulu), violation of 
friendly space policy, newbie biting, especially on newly joined women editors. 
This was mentioned in another thread on Project Tiger jury selection. I am 
surprised to know that he has been selected for Internet grant.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Suswetha Kolluru
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:59 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Hardware support recipients list

 

Greetings!

We are very happy to announce the much awaited results of the hardware support 
applications received under Project Tiger 2.0!

After reviewing all the applications (98 for internet stipend and 106 for 
laptop), it is finalized that 78 Wikimedians from 12 communities will be 
provided with internet stipends and laptop support will be provided to 50 
Wikimedians from 14 communities. 
We thank the jury for volunteering their precious time in selecting the 
deserving applications.

Laptop distribution and internet stipend distribution will start soon and we 
will reach out personally over email to collect details for the distribution.

Please have a look at the meta pages:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Support/Laptops
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Support/Internet


 

-- 

Best,

Suswetha Kolluru,

Project Tiger coordinator 2019

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Article Writing Contest

[pavanaja]

This is to inform that User: Lokesha kunchadka has been banned from Kannada and 
Tulu Wikipedias for a month for repeatedly violating friendly space policy, 
harassing new editors, especially, woman editors, using foul language on other 
editors and admin, etc. Hence I suggest not to make him a jury for Kannada 
and/or Tulu Wikipedia.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

(Bureaucrat -Kannada Wikipedia and Admin -Tulu Wikipedia)

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Suswetha Kolluru
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 10:26 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Article Writing Contest

 

Dear all,

As you know, Article Writing contest as a part of Project Tiger 2.0 has started 
on 10 October 2019 and will run till 10 January 2020. 
If you are interested to participate or to know more about the contest, please 
visit this page.[1]

Offline edit-a-thons definitely enhance participation of the community and help 
in bringing in new editors! If you are interested in conducting offline events 
as part of this contest, please write to Nitesh Gill (gillte...@gmail.com 
<mailto:gillte...@gmail.com> ) or Suswetha Kolluru (suswetha...@gmail.com 
<mailto:suswetha...@gmail.com> )


The last date to apply as jury for article writing contest in respective 
communities is 15 October 2019. If you are interested in reviewing and 
assessing articles written by your community members, please visit this page 
and add your name. [2]

Let's join our hands and play our role in growing the Wikimedia movement in 
India! :D

 

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest

[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest/Jury

-- 

Regards,

Suswetha Kolluru,

Project Tiger coordinator 2019

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Call with community members

[pavanaja]

Hello Nitesh,

16 September is Monday, not Saturday as mentioned by you.. Please clarify the 
date and day.

Regards,
Pavanaja


-Original Message-
From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Nitesh Gill
Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2019 9:41 PM
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Call with community members


Hello all!

You are aware that Project Tiger 2.0 has started. Thanks for your involvement 
so far and hope to see enthusiastic participation from the communities.

In order to discuss different areas of Project Tiger 2.0 with the community 
members regarding community generated article list, jury etc. we are planning 
to have a Hangouts call on 16 September 2019 (Saturday) at 6.30 P.M

Anyone who is interested can join the call. The link to attend call will be 
sent in a few days.

Looking forward to your participation.

Thank you
Nitesh
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

[pavanaja]

Hello Ananth,

 

Wikimedia India ran an infrastructure support program in 2014-16. Here is a 
report by them about the change (increase) in the contributions by the 
recipients- 

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Infrastructure_Scholarship_2014_-_2016 

 

I am not requesting you to create such a graphical report. Just add the 
contributions in front of the recipients’ usernames which you have already 
listed in public. 

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: pavan...@vishvakannada.com  
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 4:25 PM
To: 'Wikimedia India Community list' 
Subject: RE: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello Ananth,

 

I am aware that the recipients of laptop and/or internet support were not bound 
to contribute more to Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects. I am just curious to know 
the outcome. That’s all. 

 

Your argument that sharing the metrics against usernames will be against 
privacy of the user can’t be accepted. Because you have already shared the 
usernames of the recipients here- 

*   Laptop recipients - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support/Laptops#Support
*   Internet recipients - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support/Internet#Internet_recipients
 

Since the usernames are already in public, how come listing the contributions 
in front of the usernames become privacy violation? Anyone who knows how to run 
the metrics can get the data. I also can run the metrics and generate it. But I 
don’t have much time to do that. Moreover I am not a paid employee like  you, 
who is paid by CIS for these kind of activities. Hence I requested you to give 
that data. But your arguments has fallacy.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > On Behalf Of Ananth 
Subray
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2019 5:17 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello Pavanaja,

 

Thanks for your interest of you in the Project Tiger. I would like to answer 
your questions in the following points. 

*   The laptop support and internet stipend were not related to the article 
writing contest. We never said that the support recipients should be active 
during the article writing contest.
*   We will be not able to share the requested metrics against the 
usernames. As it's against the privacy of the user.
*   It was not an expectation or mandatory for the participants to 
contribute after receiving the support. 

If the community wants we can change the process in this iteration. 

 

ANANTH SUBRAY P V
Programme Associate
Access to Knowledge program <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k> 
The Centre for Internet & Society

+91-9739811664

 

 

 

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:03 PM mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Dear Tito,

 

I have already seen those metrics. They are not giving the info that I am 
looking for. As already written by me –

I would appreciate the stats in the form –

*   Username, Articles created, no. of edits, data added (in kb/mb), 
uploads to commons
*   It would be better to give this stats from the date they received the 
chromebook and/or Internet.

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > On Behalf Of Tito Dutta
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 10:51 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello Pavanaja,

Thanks for the question. Project Tiger 1.0 had two parts, one supporting the 
Indian communities with infrastructure support. The second part was the 
edit-a-thon. These two parts were not related/linked to each other.

The support recipients' list was decided by a jury. Active Wikimedians who 
needed this support were eligible to apply. Over-All metrics may be seen here. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Editathon_2018/Report#Metrics

 

Thanks 

Tito Dutta

Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me 
over email or phone call.

 

 

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 16:30, mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Namaskaara,

 

Please provide the statistics of effectiveness of giving chromebooks and 
Internet connections earlier. I would appreciate the stats in the form –

Username, Articles created, no. of edits, data added (in kb/mb), uploads to 
commons

 

It would be better to give this stats from the date they received the 
chromebook and/or Internet.

 

I searched in the reports and could not find it.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > On Behalf Of Ananth 
Subray
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2019 4:09 PM
T

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

[pavanaja]

Hello Ananth,

 

I am aware that the recipients of laptop and/or internet support were not bound 
to contribute more to Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects. I am just curious to know 
the outcome. That’s all. 

 

Your argument that sharing the metrics against usernames will be against 
privacy of the user can’t be accepted. Because you have already shared the 
usernames of the recipients here- 

*   Laptop recipients - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support/Laptops#Support
*   Internet recipients - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support/Internet#Internet_recipients
 

Since the usernames are already in public, how come listing the contributions 
in front of the usernames become privacy violation? Anyone who knows how to run 
the metrics can get the data. I also can run the metrics and generate it. But I 
don’t have much time to do that. Moreover I am not a paid employee like  you, 
who is paid by CIS for these kind of activities. Hence I requested you to give 
that data. But your arguments has fallacy.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Ananth Subray
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2019 5:17 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello Pavanaja,

 

Thanks for your interest of you in the Project Tiger. I would like to answer 
your questions in the following points. 

*   The laptop support and internet stipend were not related to the article 
writing contest. We never said that the support recipients should be active 
during the article writing contest.
*   We will be not able to share the requested metrics against the 
usernames. As it's against the privacy of the user.
*   It was not an expectation or mandatory for the participants to 
contribute after receiving the support. 

If the community wants we can change the process in this iteration. 

 

ANANTH SUBRAY P V
Programme Associate
Access to Knowledge program <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k> 
The Centre for Internet & Society

+91-9739811664

 

 

 

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:03 PM mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Dear Tito,

 

I have already seen those metrics. They are not giving the info that I am 
looking for. As already written by me –

I would appreciate the stats in the form –

*   Username, Articles created, no. of edits, data added (in kb/mb), 
uploads to commons
*   It would be better to give this stats from the date they received the 
chromebook and/or Internet.

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > On Behalf Of Tito Dutta
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 10:51 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello Pavanaja,

Thanks for the question. Project Tiger 1.0 had two parts, one supporting the 
Indian communities with infrastructure support. The second part was the 
edit-a-thon. These two parts were not related/linked to each other.

The support recipients' list was decided by a jury. Active Wikimedians who 
needed this support were eligible to apply. Over-All metrics may be seen here. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Editathon_2018/Report#Metrics

 

Thanks 

Tito Dutta

Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me 
over email or phone call.

 

 

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 16:30, mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Namaskaara,

 

Please provide the statistics of effectiveness of giving chromebooks and 
Internet connections earlier. I would appreciate the stats in the form –

Username, Articles created, no. of edits, data added (in kb/mb), uploads to 
commons

 

It would be better to give this stats from the date they received the 
chromebook and/or Internet.

 

I searched in the reports and could not find it.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > On Behalf Of Ananth 
Subray
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2019 4:09 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello,

 

We are glad to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW is going to start very 
soon. You know about Project Tiger first iteration where we saw exciting and 
encouraging participation from different Indian Wikimedia communities. To Know 
about Project Tiger 1.0 please see this page - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program

 

Like project Tiger 1.0, This iteration will have 2 components

1.  Infrastructure support - Supporting Wikimedians from India with 
internet support for 6 months and providing Chrome books.
2.  Article writing contest - A 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

[pavanaja]

Dear Tito,

 

I have already seen those metrics. They are not giving the info that I am 
looking for. As already written by me –

I would appreciate the stats in the form –

*   Username, Articles created, no. of edits, data added (in kb/mb), 
uploads to commons
*   It would be better to give this stats from the date they received the 
chromebook and/or Internet.

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Tito Dutta
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 10:51 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello Pavanaja,

Thanks for the question. Project Tiger 1.0 had two parts, one supporting the 
Indian communities with infrastructure support. The second part was the 
edit-a-thon. These two parts were not related/linked to each other.

The support recipients' list was decided by a jury. Active Wikimedians who 
needed this support were eligible to apply. Over-All metrics may be seen here. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Editathon_2018/Report#Metrics

 

Thanks 

Tito Dutta

Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me 
over email or phone call.

 

 

On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 16:30, mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> > wrote:

Namaskaara,

 

Please provide the statistics of effectiveness of giving chromebooks and 
Internet connections earlier. I would appreciate the stats in the form –

Username, Articles created, no. of edits, data added (in kb/mb), uploads to 
commons

 

It would be better to give this stats from the date they received the 
chromebook and/or Internet.

 

I searched in the reports and could not find it.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> > On Behalf Of Ananth 
Subray
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2019 4:09 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello,

 

We are glad to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW is going to start very 
soon. You know about Project Tiger first iteration where we saw exciting and 
encouraging participation from different Indian Wikimedia communities. To Know 
about Project Tiger 1.0 please see this page - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program

 

Like project Tiger 1.0, This iteration will have 2 components

1.  Infrastructure support - Supporting Wikimedians from India with 
internet support for 6 months and providing Chrome books.
2.  Article writing contest - A 3-month article writing contest will be 
conducted for Indian Wikimedians communities. Following community feedback, we 
noted some community members wanted the process of article list generation to 
be improved. In this iteration there will be at least two lists of articles a) 
Google-generated list, b) community suggested a list. Google generated list 
will be given to the community members before finalising the final list. On the 
other hand, the community may create a list by discussing among the community 
over Village pump, Mailing list and similar discussion channels. 

We request you to go through these pages to know more about Project Tiger 
2.0/GLOW

1.  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)
 
2.  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Support
   

 

We will give you more updates about every step and procedure in the next 
two-three days. 

 

Thanks and Regards,

 

ANANTH SUBRAY P V

Programme Associate

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

+91-9739811664

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

[pavanaja]

Congratulations to Santhosh. This kind of recognitions do motivate more people 
to contribute.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Ramesh N G
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2019 12:05 PM
To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. 

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

 

Wonderful... Congratulations to Santhosh..

 

On Thu, 15 Aug, 2019, 10:27 PM manoj k, mailto:manojkmohanme03...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Santhosh Thottingal 
<https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/thottingal.in>
  has won the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India 
<https://www.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-award-declared-1.4042922>
 . This is in recognition of his substantial contribution in the field of 
Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the substantial 
contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi, Pali and Classical 
Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu, and Classical Malayalam. This is 
given to young scholars in the age group of 30 to 45 years 
<https://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/advertisment/presidential_awards_en.pdf>
 . The Presidential award carries a certificate of honor, a memento and a 
one-time cash prize of Rs.1 lakh.

Santhosh is one of the most active contributors of Swathanthra Malayalam 
Computing and a principal engineer in Wikipedia's language computing 
department. He has designed and released several algorithms and tools that 
serve computing needs in many Indian languages including Malayalam. He heads 
the maintenance of a dozen or so of the popular Malayalam fonts. Santhosh 
(along Kavya) designed two of these fonts, Chilanka and Manjari 
<https://www.mathrubhumi.com/technology/web/manjari-font-new-malayalam-font-laguage-technology-santhosh-thottingal-swathanthra-malayalam-com-malayalam-news-1.1224474>
 . He has contributed 
<https://internethealthreport.org/2018/building-a-multilingual-internet/>  
tools that serve a broad range of language computing needs - input tools, 
layout tools, fonts, font rendering, text to speech, translation, localization 
are just a few of these areas. He has also contributed and presented papers at 
several international conferences.

Dr. Rajeev R. R from the e-governance and training department of ICFOSS has 
also been selected for this award along with Santhosh.

We hope this award inspires Santhosh and Rajeev to push the boundaries of 
Language computing.

https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/

 

--

Manoj Karingamadathil [[User:Manojk]]

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

[pavanaja]

Namaskaara,

 

Please provide the statistics of effectiveness of giving chromebooks and 
Internet connections earlier. I would appreciate the stats in the form –

Username, Articles created, no. of edits, data added (in kb/mb), uploads to 
commons

 

It would be better to give this stats from the date they received the 
chromebook and/or Internet.

 

I searched in the reports and could not find it.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Ananth Subray
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2019 4:09 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW

 

Hello,

 

We are glad to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW is going to start very 
soon. You know about Project Tiger first iteration where we saw exciting and 
encouraging participation from different Indian Wikimedia communities. To Know 
about Project Tiger 1.0 please see this page - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program

 

Like project Tiger 1.0, This iteration will have 2 components

1.  Infrastructure support - Supporting Wikimedians from India with 
internet support for 6 months and providing Chrome books.
2.  Article writing contest - A 3-month article writing contest will be 
conducted for Indian Wikimedians communities. Following community feedback, we 
noted some community members wanted the process of article list generation to 
be improved. In this iteration there will be at least two lists of articles a) 
Google-generated list, b) community suggested a list. Google generated list 
will be given to the community members before finalising the final list. On the 
other hand, the community may create a list by discussing among the community 
over Village pump, Mailing list and similar discussion channels. 

We request you to go through these pages to know more about Project Tiger 
2.0/GLOW

1.  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)
 
2.  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Support
   

 

We will give you more updates about every step and procedure in the next 
two-three days. 

 

Thanks and Regards,

 

ANANTH SUBRAY P V

Programme Associate

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

+91-9739811664

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] QR Code Generator

[pavanaja]

Hi,

 

This is really useful. I added it to my common.js. How can I make it available 
for everyone? I am an admin.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Jay prakash
Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 2:40 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Cc: mediawiki-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] QR Code Generator

 

There is a little correction. It is SVG instead of SVF.

 

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:37 AM Rajeeb Dutta mailto:marajoz...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Congratulations, great job done, all my best wishes to the entire team.

Best Regards,
Rajeeb Dutta.

Sent from my iPhone


On 05-Feb-2019, at 12:32 AM, Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com 
<mailto:0freerunn...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Hello Wikimedians, Indic-TechCom just completed their work on QR Code 
Generator.[1][2] This UserScript will help Wikimedians to Generator QR Code of 
Current Page onwiki. And you can also Download it as PNG format.

 

For good user experience, We used OOUI library to create the widget.[3] Install 
it and give your experience on its talk page. We are also planning to add 
Download as SVF format option.

 

Thanks :)

 

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/qrCodeGenerator

[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [TWL Con - 2019 India] Call for Applications

[pavanaja]

Please read my comments here -

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:TWLCon_(2019_India)#Unprofessional_planning
 

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 3:46 PM
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [TWL Con - 2019 India] Call for Applications

 

Dear all, 

 

Following the comments, some new changes have been proposed for discussion on 
the event page.

Please participate in the discussion at 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:TWLCon_(2019_India)#Resturcturing_the_program.

 

Thanks,

Krishna

 

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:01 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga mailto:kcvel...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Hi Shyamal,

 

Firstly I am sorry to all about the event. I was not regular in updating that, 
so everything remained the way when I first created (basically from my sandox). 
It needs to be updated, I'll do that shorty. I've also replied to your talk 
page message, which I believe will answer your question from the immediate 
previous email, atleast to some extent.

 

I'll glad to continue the discussion there, so that it'll help to make it a 
better event. If there is anyone who would like to add to the program or 
discussion, please comment on the event talk page.

 

Thanks,

Krishna

 

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 9:43 PM Shyamal Lakshminarayanan mailto:lshya...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Hi Krishna,

 

I think the "we" is unclear here. Many of us Wikipedians would have run into 
librarians and we might all have networks to tap into for helping an event such 
as this. The status is marked as "Initial planning" - it would seem like that 
is what it ought to be and you might like to avoid Google Forms at this stage 
and ask for more open feedback on the scope itself. Even the dates could be 
changed - it would easily have been possible to choose a date that would 
commemorate say S R Ranganathan (9 August), which would also have made it 
possible to rally the message more effectively within librarian networks. 

 

I recently met a librarian who was attending WikiCite 2018 but had no idea of 
the Wikimedia related activities in India. I think no attempt has been made 
here to reach out into rather disjoint networks, it needs far more 
participation, a much-larger organising "team" and a broader scope to be 
effective or useful. A meeting of a few Wikipedians would certainly be fun, and 
relatively cheap to organize but unlikely to be particularly useful in the long 
run. As far as I have seen, other than User:Gazal World and perhaps a couple of 
other Indians, there is no activity on the en:resource exchange and I do not 
know if such fora exist on other language wikipedias. I know that there are 
several Indian/Indic Wikipedians with access to JSTOR and other resources via 
TWL but I do not think there has not even been a survey of whether the grantees 
have made use of those resources.

 

best wishes

Shyamal

 

 

 

 

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 9:23 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga mailto:kcvel...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Hi Dhaval,

 

We are in a conversation with a few institutions, where academics, librarians 
and any other related personnel can take part in some discussions. We will be 
finalising it by the end of this week, definitely before notifying the 
participants.

 

Yes, applications will close today. We haven't fixed the event dates only to 
suit the venue, but to avoid clashes with Hindi WP conference, we fixed on 4-6 
Jan. I made the change 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TWLCon_%282019_India%29&type=revision&diff=18648338&oldid=18645643>
  this morning about the same. 

 

Thanks,

Krishna

 

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 9:12 PM Dhaval S. Vyas mailto:dsv...@gmail.com> > wrote:

The whole planning seems to be half cooked, e.g. on the conference homepage it 
reads:

 

Venue & City: We're currently searching, let us know know if you have any good 
options; economical (free; library preferred), safe, well connected, easy of 
connecting with local library/librarian community.

 

And are we closing applications today? Should we not have a confirmed venue to 
begin with? Day before yesterday when I checked the page, even dates weren't 
confirm and there were couple of options projected there.

 

Regards,

Dhaval Vyas

 

On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, 15:34 Krishna Chaitanya Velaga mailto:kcvel...@gmail.com>  wrote:

Hi Shyamal,

 

I've seen your message on the talk page. I'll give my reply soon.

 

Thanks,

 

On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 8:37 PM Shyamal Lakshminarayanan mailto:lshya...@gmail.com> > wrote:

I have noted on the talk page that this "event" appears  to have been set up 
without much discussion. I would indeed even question the design of an event 
that precludes librarians who are outside the Wikimedia movement simply by 
requiring that on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [TWL Con - 2019 India] Call for Applications

[pavanaja]

We were under the impression that the closing date is Nov 27, 2018. That’s what 
was mentioned in the website. Just now only I saw that you have changed that to 
Nov 25th only yesterday.

 

Here is the history of that edit - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TWLCon_(2019_India) 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=TWLCon_(2019_India)&diff=prev&oldid=18645643>
 &diff=prev&oldid=18645643 

 

Two persons from Kravali Wikimedians User Group are planning to apply. They are 
still under the impression that the last date is Nov 27th. 

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2018 8:45 PM
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [TWL Con - 2019 India] Call for Applications

 

Sorry for the typo

 

The applications will close at 23:59 hrs on 25 November 2018.  

 

On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 8:40 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga mailto:kcvel...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Dear all,

 

Tomorrow is the last day for applying to TWLCon - 2019 India. The applications 
will close at 23:59 hrs on 25 September 2018.

 

If there is anyone who are interested to take part, kindly apply as soon as 
possible.

 

Event page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TWLC19IN

Application: https://goo.gl/forms/NvwYttEeCFfl30rG3

 

Thanks,

Krishna

 

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 1:33 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga mailto:kcvel...@gmail.com> > wrote:

Dear all,

 

I am happy to announce that the applications for "TWL Con (2019 India)"[1], a 
mini-conference around The Wikipedia Library (TWL)[2] and library outreach for 
Wikimedia projects in India are now open. Due to limited time, we're not able 
to spare much time for responses, kindly accept my apologies. The application 
period is 19–25 November 2018.

 

In brief about the event:

 

TWL helps active editors access reliable sources to improve Wikipedia. Among 
several other programs, it also helps knowledge professionals share their 
collections with the public. TWLCon (2019 India) is an upcoming conference to 
increase awareness about TWL to Wikimedians in India and discuss strategising 
TWL activities in India. This event has been primarily designed to understand 
the needs and document the insights from experienced Wikimedians about 
libraries/sources (references) in India. More about the event may be referred 
from the event page.

 

The application form is at: https://goo.gl/forms/NvwYttEeCFfl30rG3; last date 
25 November 2018. 

The event is to be held in the first or second weeks of Jan 2019 (tentative); 
Venue will be informed later. 

The eligibility guidelines are applicable as mentioned here [3].

 

Kindly let me know if you have further questions.

 

Thanks

User:KCVelaga

 

[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TWLC19IN

[2]: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TWLCon_(2019_India)#Eligibility_and_guidelines

[3]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Regarding license of a public talk

[pavanaja]

Photo of a public figure (person) clicked during a public function or at any 
public place/event (like rally, speech,..) can be uploaded to commons under CC 
licence. Can the same logic be applied here?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Shrinivasan T
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 9:14 PM
To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. 

Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Regarding license of a public talk

 

I have few queries on license of a recording of a public talk.

 

In YouTube, there are many videos of tamil public talks available. They are on 
literature, history, politics and more.

 

Though the uploaded did not choose the license, who owns the copyright?

 

The speaker

The Video recorder

The event organizer

The venue owner

The public

 

I want to make podcasts using those talks. I attend few events and record the 
same talk myself as audio.

 

Now there is no difference between my recording and the one on YouTube.

 

Now is it OK to upload my audio files to archive.org <http://archive.org>  in a 
CC license?

 

If the license of a public event is any one of public license, shall I rip the 
audio from YouTube talks of public events, and release in a CC license?

 

Share your thoughts.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Tulu WIkipedia 2nd anniversary

[pavanaja]

Greetings on 2nd anniversary of Tulu Wikipedia becoming live. Tulu Wikipedia 
URL - tcy.wikipedia.org <https://t.co/AU5cqUitt4>  Thanks to all volunteers who 
made it possible

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Tulu offline Wikipedia to schools

[Dr. U.B. Pavanaja]

Dear All,

 

Tulu language is being taught in schools of coastal Karnataka. The students
don't have much encyclopedic books or content to read other than the
textbooks. We at Karavali Wikimedians User Group have come out with a
project plan to add articles to Tulu Wikipedia based on the  school
syllabus. The plan is to get enough number of articles in Tulu Wikipedia,
create offline Tulu Wikipedia using Kiwix and then distribute them to
schools. I have created a grant application for this project [1]. I request
everyone to go through the grant application and provide useful suggestions
in the talk page. Also please endorse the grant application once you are
convinced that this project needs support.

 

Notes: 1.  Grant application -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Pavanaja/Tulu_offline_Wikiped
ia_to_schools  

2. For endorsing -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Pavanaja/Tulu_offline_Wikiped
ia_to_schools#Endorsements 

3. For discussions -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Pavanaja/Tulu_offline_Wi
kipedia_to_schools 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation for office hours with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team (INDIA)

[Dr. U.B. Pavanaja]

Did this happen finally? If yes, any recording available?

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com] 
Sent: 29 September 2017 10:12 AM
To: 'Wikimedia India Community list'
Subject: RE: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation for office hours with the Wikimedia 
Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team (INDIA)

 

I also agree that 30th is not a suitable date. In fact, I will be traveling to 
Mangaluru for participating in the Tulu,  Kannada editathon.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On 
Behalf Of Abhinav srivastava
Sent: 29 September 2017 08:12 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation for office hours with the Wikimedia 
Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team (INDIA)

 

+1 Manoj Khurana Jee 

On Friday, September 29, 2017, Manoj Khurana  wrote:

Hi Ravi,

I'm afraid 30th evening may not be a suitable date/time as it's coinciding with 
Dashahara/Durga Puja. 

Pls seek opinion from others also and take appropriate action. 

 

Regards,

Manoj

U:Anamdas

 

On 28-Sep-2017 11:47 PM, "Ravishankar Ayyakkannu"  > wrote:

Hi,

 

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team, we 
invite all Indian language Wikimedia communities to our office hours to discuss 
our  <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/India_Partnerships_plan> 
India partnerships plan for 2017-18.

 

Meeting Details

 

Date: Saturday, 30th September 2017

 

Time: 15:00 UTC/20:30 IST

 

Duration: 90 minutes

 

Language: English

 

Location:  
<https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/rayyakkannu?authuser=0> 
Google Hangout

 

Please join 15 minutes before the scheduled time to sort out possible technical 
issues. 

 

Agenda

 

·  Presenting India Partnerships plan 2017-18

·  Introducing a content creation partnership for Indian languages

·  Q&A

 

Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in  
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/P%26GR_India_Office_hours> this etherpad 
document. You can also reach out to rayyakka...@wikimedia.org 
  for any 
clarification. Please share this invitation in community social media channels 
to spread the word.

 

Thanks,

 

Ravi

 

-- 

Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia & Eastern Europe

Wikimedia Foundation 

 

Mobile: +91-9986993336

Skype: ravidre...@gmail.com 
 


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation for office hours with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team (INDIA)

[Dr. U.B. Pavanaja]

I also agree that 30th is not a suitable date. In fact, I will be traveling to 
Mangaluru for participating in the Tulu,  Kannada editathon.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On 
Behalf Of Abhinav srivastava
Sent: 29 September 2017 08:12 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation for office hours with the Wikimedia 
Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team (INDIA)

 

+1 Manoj Khurana Jee 

On Friday, September 29, 2017, Manoj Khurana  wrote:

Hi Ravi,

I'm afraid 30th evening may not be a suitable date/time as it's coinciding with 
Dashahara/Durga Puja. 

Pls seek opinion from others also and take appropriate action. 

 

Regards,

Manoj

U:Anamdas

 

On 28-Sep-2017 11:47 PM, "Ravishankar Ayyakkannu"  > wrote:

Hi,

 

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team, we 
invite all Indian language Wikimedia communities to our office hours to discuss 
our  <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach/India_Partnerships_plan> 
India partnerships plan for 2017-18.

 

Meeting Details

 

Date: Saturday, 30th September 2017

 

Time: 15:00 UTC/20:30 IST

 

Duration: 90 minutes

 

Language: English

 

Location:  
<https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/wikimedia.org/rayyakkannu?authuser=0> 
Google Hangout

 

Please join 15 minutes before the scheduled time to sort out possible technical 
issues. 

 

Agenda

 

·  Presenting India Partnerships plan 2017-18

·  Introducing a content creation partnership for Indian languages

·  Q&A

 

Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in  
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/P%26GR_India_Office_hours> this etherpad 
document. You can also reach out to rayyakka...@wikimedia.org 
  for any 
clarification. Please share this invitation in community social media channels 
to spread the word.

 

Thanks,

 

Ravi

 

-- 

Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia & Eastern Europe

Wikimedia Foundation 

 

Mobile: +91-9986993336

Skype: ravidre...@gmail.com 
 


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group

[Dr. U.B. Pavanaja]

Congratulations and welcome to the club

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On 
Behalf Of Satdeep Gill
Sent: 08 July 2017 09:57 AM
To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Wikimedia India Community list; Wikimedia India EC
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition 
of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group

 

Hi everyone,

 

I would also like to congratulate Hindi Wikimedians. 

Regards



Satdeep Gill




Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B#SGill_.28WMF.29>
 

Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians> 
Treasurer, Affiliations Committee 
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee> 



Member, Language Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee> 


On 08-Jul-2017, at 7:38 AM, Yohann Thomas  wrote:

Dear community 

 

This is another amazing news I'm happy to forward to you all after hearing 
about it. 

 

The Hindi User group had been recognized by the AffCom. I'm also very much 
pleased to know that one of the members of this user group, Mr Suyash Dwivedi 
is also on the board of Wikimedia India. 

 

I am very much excited about the future & opportunities for this fledgling new 
user group & congratulate them on this.. 

 

Regards 

Yohann Thomas 

Wikimedia India 

 

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Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Hindi Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
aims to advance the work of the Wikimedia movement in the Hindi language.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hindi_Wikimedians_User_Group
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[Wikimediaindia-l] National Science Month Editathon

[Dr. U.B. Pavanaja]

Dear Indic Wikipedians,

India <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India>  celebrates 28 February as
National Science Day <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Day>
each year to mark the discovery of the Raman effect
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_Effect>  by Indian scientist Sir
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.V._Raman>  on
28 February 1928. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics>  For this discovery,
in the year 1930. Most schools celebrate National Science day by arranging
science festivals, demo and competition of science models, visiting science
museums, etc.

Instead of celebrating National Science Day as just one-day event, it is
planned to have a month long events in Indian language Wikipedias. These
events will be online and offline editathons, outreach activities and
meetups. The goal is to add more articles on science topics to Indian
language Wikipedias on topics on which articles are not present in the
respective language Wikipedia as of now. Additionally, efforts will be made
to enhance and improve existing articles on science topics.

Please join this. Add your event here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Month_Editathon 

[Sorry for cross-posting]

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja 

 

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

[Dr. U.B. Pavanaja]

I will be in Mumbai on 22 & 23, 2015 and at Pune on 24 & 25, 2015. I would like 
to meet Marathi Wikimedians during this trip. I would like to discuss the 
creation of resources needed for Marathi taking into consideration of available 
resources, their status, identifying the resources that have to be created 
and/or improved. Let us meet and discuss these things. Please send me an email 
at pavanaja AT cis-india DOT org and let us meet.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [CIS-A2K] August Newsletter

[Dr.U.B. Pavanaja]

epartment of State Educational Research and Training to improve 
science-related articles that are part of the Government of Karnataka's high 
school syllabus. During the workshop the lecturers were taught about the basics 
of Kannada Wikipedia, article editing policies, Kannada input, creating and 
editing articles on Kannada Wikipedia. U.B. Pavanaja and Tito Dutta from 
CIS-A2K conducted the workshop, behalf of CIS-A2K.

=== Sau Dhuni Teen project ===

⬤ Wikipedia workshop in Pune 
(http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-workshop-in-theme-of-sou-dhuni-teen-pune-university:

A Wikipedia workshop was organized at Srimati Savitribai Phule Pune University 
on 20 August 2015. Under the scope of “Sau Dhuni Teen” project, the workshop 
focused on building resources in Indian languages for women's studies on 
Wikipedia.

 

⬤ Wikipedia workshop in TISS, Mumbai:

(http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/sau-dhuni-teen-project-wikipedia-workshop-in-tiss-mumbai)

A two-day long and multilingual Wikipedia workshop was organized at the Women's 
Studies Department of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai between 
22-24 August. This was an outreach event conducted under the scope of the "Sau 
Dhuni Teen" project.

== Blog posts ==

⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Tulu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Mangalore" 
(http://goo.gl/ZxJVnS) (18 August 2015)

⬤ Pavanaja, U. B. "Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related 
Wikipedia articles" 
(http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-language-science-related-wikipedia-articles-1)
 (19 August 2015)

⬤ Panigrahi, Subhashish. "Odia Wikisource has a new Wikisourcer, and he is the 
youngest in the Odia Wikimedia community!" 
(http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/kisorachandrananachampu-on-odia-wikisource)
 (21 August 2015)

== Media coverage ==

1. ಬೆಳ್ತಂಗಡಿ:ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಕಾಲಕ್ಕೂ ಲಭ್ಯ ಇರುವ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಹಾಗೂ ಮುಕ್ತ ವಿಶ್ವಕೋಶ 
ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಾ-ಪವನಜ (http://cis-india.org/openness/news/sahil-online-august-14-2015 
) SahilOnline; 14 August 2015
2. ಗ್ರಾಮೀಣ ಪ್ರದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿಯಿಂದ ದೇಶದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಪ್ರಗತಿ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ( 
<http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015> 
http://cis-india.org/openness/news/mangalorean-dotcom-august-13-2015 ) 
Mangalorean.com; 13 August 2015
3. Telugu religious and historical work preserved at Annamacharya library to 
come on Wikisource! ( 
<http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-and-historical-work-preserved-at-Annamacharya-library-to-come-on-Wikisource-168454Rare>
 
http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-08-07/Rare-Telugu-religious-and-historical-work-preserved-at-Annamacharya-library-to-come-on-Wikisource-168454Rare
 ) The Hans India; 7 August 2015

 

This newsletter is also available on Meta at:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2015

 

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWikiTTT-2015

[Dr.U.B. Pavanaja]

Yes

Regards,
Pavanaja

-Original Message-
From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of sankarshan
Sent: 10 June 2015 11:11
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWikiTTT-2015

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Dr.U.B. Pavanaja  
wrote:
> CIS-A2K intends to bridge this gap by creating and grooming 'tech' 
> leaders in the MediaWiki sphere from the existing Indian Language Wikipedians.
> MediaWiki Train the Trainer program aims to facilitate discussions 
> around nurturing leadership regarding tech related issues, file bugs 
> that hinder the growth of Indian Language Wikipedias, active 
> contribution towards improving the existing MediaWiki software and 
> understanding the importance of mediating technology for outreach activities.

Is this the first iteration of this initiative?


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[Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWikiTTT-2015

[Dr.U.B. Pavanaja]

Dear Wikimedians,

 

It gives WMIN and CIS-A2K great pleasure to announce that we have started
preparations for MediaWiki Train the Trainer Program. It is a matter of
grave concern that while the Indian Language Wikipedias are slowly improving
their content and expanding their volunteer base, there is very less and
often zero representation from the Indian Language Communities towards
MediaWiki software and the available tools around.

 

CIS-A2K intends to bridge this gap by creating and grooming 'tech' leaders
in the MediaWiki sphere from the existing Indian Language Wikipedians.
MediaWiki Train the Trainer program aims to facilitate discussions around
nurturing leadership regarding tech related issues, file bugs that hinder
the growth of Indian Language Wikipedias, active contribution towards
improving the existing MediaWiki software and understanding the importance
of mediating technology for outreach activities. The 4 day residential event
will happen in last week of June, 2015.

 

Exact dates and venue will be announced soon.

 

We welcome specific issues that should be discussed during the MWTTT as well
as feedback and suggestions. Please write to us if there are any concerns.

 

The event page : 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Mediawiki_Train_the_Trainer_P
rogram

 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

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 <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> Programme Manager - Indian
languages,

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

 

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] List of on-wiki projects needed

[Dr.U.B. Pavanaja]

Dear all,

 

I have to give a presentation on on-wiki projects in this seminar/workshop - 
https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
<https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/??:?__>
 विकिपीडिया:संस्कृतप्राध्यापकानां_विकिचिन्तनगोष्ठी_२०१५ 

 

Please give me a list of wikiprojects which I can showcase there

 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD

 <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> Programme Manager – Indian 
languages,

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

 

 

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

[Dr Pavanaja]

I am for mmm for month name

-Pavanaja

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar 
wrote:

> Whenever there is  DD or MM format , there is a confusion. Month should be
> mmm.
> On Oct 10, 2014 11:23 AM, "ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ)" 
> wrote:
>
>> +1 Srikanth Ramakrishnan
>>
>> The ISO 8601 format <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601> for date
>> too corresponds to the same above (-MM-DD) format.
>>
>> Real advantages of this format are (1) Non-ambiguity, (2) Correct sort
>> order even when data is processed as pure text and (3) international
>> consistency
>>
>> Certainly, this is one of the subset of CLDR too.
>>
>> I suggest all Wikimedia projects should have this format as default, but
>> again, customizable per user preferences.
>>
>> -Viswam
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sudhanwa, while I don't know about Indian language projects, 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-2014 11:24 pm, "Sudhanwa Jogalekar" 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 be to standardise the display on the
>>>> pages to dd-mmm- date formats and hh:mm:ss am/pm local timezone.
>>>> This could be same for any IP based editing but at the same time,
>>>> logged in users should have their own preferences in their settings.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure how much this is already implemented. If not done earlier,
>>>> could be taken up for implementation.
>>>> Regards
>>>> -Sudhanwa
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time
>>>> defined as
>>>> > the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see:
>>>> >
>>>> http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
>>>> >
>>>> > Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects
>>>> have
>>>> > "Asia/Kolkata" as the timezone, for example guwiki (Gujarati
>>>> Wikipedia), but
>>>> > some don't appear at all, which means that their default timezone is
>>>> UTC. So
>>>> > for example if one goes to recent changes on the Assamese Wikisource,
>>>> then
>>>> > the times will show by default in IST, but on Assamese Wikipedia it
>>>> will be
>>>> > UTC.
>>>> >
>>>> > I guess that at least some of the projects will want to switch to the
>>>> > timezone of India. It's easy to do - a line for each project needs to
>>>> be
>>>> > added for each site, but this should come in as requests from each
>>>> site's
>>>> > community.
>>>> >
>>>> > If you have a few minutes, please check whether your favorite
>>>> Wikimedia uses
>>>> > the appropriate default time zone. If it doesn't, please bring this
>>>> up for
>>>> > community discussion, and if the community agrees, please request to
>>>> change
>>>> > it in Bugzilla (or just submit a patch directly to Gerrit).
>>>> >
>>>> > If you need any technical explanation (for example, if you have no
>>>> idea how
>>>> > to work with Bugzilla and Gerrit), I am available for questions.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thank you!
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
>>>> > http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>>>> > ‪“We're living in pieces,
>>>> > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>>>> >
>>>> > 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Release of 105 books by Govt of Karnataka under CC-BY-SA

[Dr Pavanaja]

The books have this statement "ಈ ಆವೃತ್ತಿಯ ಹಕ್ಕು : ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಸರಕಾರ", which
means Govt of Karnataka holds the copyright for this particular edition.
GoK issued a statement releasing these books now under CC. I do agree that
there can't be any copyright on texts of dasa sahitya, vachana sahitya and
other classics which are quite old. The books now released by GoK also
include some recent books which contains collections like complete works of
Dr Ambedkar, essays on Ambedkar, research works on Kanaka dasa, etc. We
should appreciate that officials at Kannada and Culture Dept of GoK have
realised the importance of open knowledge philosophy and have agreed to
release the books under CC. This will definitely help in convincing other
departments, academies and universities to release their works under CC.

Regards,
Pavanaja


On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Anivar Aravind 
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Vishnu  wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 25 September 2014 11:19 AM, Rajesh Ranjan wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Anivar Aravind > > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Vishnu  wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Dear Ravi,
>>>>
>>>> On the copyright question AFAIK...  it is the manner in which a certain
>>>> content is expressed (e.g. analyzed, compiled, paginated, represented,
>>>> etc..) the author could claim copyright, as there is a certain basic amount
>>>> of creative labour that went into it. So Govt. of Karnataka could
>>>> rightfully copyright these works, which it has now released under CC-BY-SA
>>>> 3.0. A useful thing to read in this context would be this [1].
>>>>
>>>
>>>  As Ravi pointed 11th Century Kannada literature is already public
>>> domain . There is no point in re-licensing it as CC-BY-SA .
>>>  Digitization does not create fresh copyright . While thanking Govt for
>>> their efforts to make it available , please dont create fresh copyright on
>>> it . And while looking at details, There was no  point of time  in which
>>> govt of Karanataka had copyright on this content .
>>>
>>>  This effort is almost in same lines of  Open access initiative of rare
>>> public domain books by Kerala Sahitya academy happened almost same time
>>> last year (http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/online_library/index.html)
>>> . They havnt claimed any undeserving copyright on these books . SO it is
>>> better if people involved canm correct Govt of Karanataka at this point
>>> itself showing kerala example to avoid further ambiguities surrounding
>>> license .
>>>
>>>  ~ regards
>>>  Anivar
>>>
>>>
>>
>>  I agree with Ravi and Anivar!
>>
>>  I am not an expert of licensing, but the thing that is already in
>> public domain, licensing the same under CC-BY-SA 3.0 is one way limiting
>> the public availability of the same content.
>>
>>  Rajesh and Anivar,
>>
>> Purely from a copyright POV, it is important to recognize the idea -
>> expression divide. The content per-se in this case may be public domain,
>> but it is the expression of it that is copyrighted as I stated above.
>> Especially, as I understand, the copyright act in India has bare minimum
>> requirements for creative labour.
>>
>> But I am willing to be better educated on this.
>>
>>
> In US copyright The Bridgeman v. Corel [1]case established, and several
> other courts have followed, the principle that a "slavish copy" does not
> have enough originality to warrant copyright protection. Skill in making
> that copy, no matter how great it is (and we all know how difficult it can
> be to make a good copy), also is not by itself "original" enough to warrant
> copyright protection. we only need to care about the US law in this case
> because content hosted is in wikimedia servers in US . AFAIK this does not
> have  much conflicts with indian law too.
>
> Licensing this under creative commons is a copyright claim of public
> domain works  even though spirit behind licensing is different. So my only
> point is whoever working on this please correct it at this point itself by
> giving proper credit (as Open access initiative of  kannada old classics )
> by pointing examples like kerala sahitya academy's last year efforts.
>
> In india we anyway need to get more public institutions and libraries to
> release digitalized /scanned version of PD works . So the each example we
> set at this point have impacts over all these decisions. So please correct
> the mistake

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Release of 105 books by Govt of Karnataka under CC-BY-SA

[Dr Pavanaja]

Dear Ravi,

The works are no doubt out of copyright, but the particular collection,
edited and paginated by GoK is what have been re-released in CC. They have
so far provided softcopies of 4 books.  I am trying to get the remaining
books as well.

Thanks and regards,
Pavanaja



On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <
ravidre...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

> Hi Pavanaja,
>
> Please excuse my ignorance regarding Kannada Literature.
>
> Are we talking about the works of
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purandara_Dasa
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanaka_Dasa
>
> and works like
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasa_sahitya
>
> These seem centuries old and should be already available in public domain
> with no copyright claims. Why woud we need them re-released under Creative
> Commons?
>
> If Dept of Kannada & Culture, Govt of Karnataka provides access to readily
> available digitized sources, it is an important gesture and I appreciate
> the effort behind this. But, not sure on the copyright part.
>
> Could you please clarify?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ravi,
> Program Director, Wikimedia India Chapter.
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Release of 105 books by Govt of Karnataka under CC-BY-SA

[Dr Pavanaja]

namaste,

It gives me immense pleasure to announce the re-release of 105 Kannada
classics by Dept of Kannada & Culture, Govt of Karnataka, under CC-BY-SA.
CIS-A2K put lot of efforts in convincing the department to achieve this
milestone. These books include classics like complete Dasa Sahitya which
include complete works of Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa, complete Vachana
Sahitya, Kumaravyasa Bharata, Jaimini Bharata, etc. We got 4 books in PDF
form and they have been uploaded to Commons and index pages created in
Kannada Wikisource. The complete project page for anyone to register and
start working on is at http://bit.ly/gokbooks. The same page has the link
to the declaration containing the list of books released under CC-BY-SA
now. People are welcome to scan and upload other books from the list. I am
simultaneously working on procuring other books from the list in PDF form.

Thanks and regards,
Pavanaja
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia/Wikisource/Wikimedia stall at Chennai Mozilla Reps Maker Party

[Pavanaja U B]

Hello,

 

There will be a Wikipedia/Wikisource/Wikimedia stall at the Maker Party
Chennai (http://makerpartychennai.in/) tomorrow (Spe14, 2014). I will be
there. Please take some time out to visit. Let us catch up.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

[Pavanaja U B]

Hi all,

 

The very first email in this thread by Ravi had two main queries –one was about 
Tulu Wikipedia workshop and another one about Christ University project. I have 
answered both of them. Since both questions were asked in the same email, I 
answered both of them in same reply mail. Vikram also answered about the Christ 
University project. Complete report of CIS-A2K activities and outcome is 
available on meta and I am sure all the people who have been active in this 
thread have thoroughly gone through them. I don’t think we will be gaining 
anything more by doing further hair-splitting on this. 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Abhilash S 
Unni
Sent: 20 May 2014 09:05
To: 'Wikimedia India Community list'
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

Hello Pavanaja

 

Thanks for your note and links. Impressive and convincing. No that is not 
shameless at all, after all your effort and the achievements are result of that 
effort, which should of course be appreciated and you can, and should claim due 
credit for that.

 

That said, I do feel that it is odd, when Ravi had specifically asked for 
details regarding Kannada outreach, the response more or less seems to be 
concentrating on Tulu.

 

The fact that this thread subject line mentions Kannada means that someone who 
might be interested to know about Tulu may not even look into this. Another 
thread which could ask for Tulu details might eventually originate asking for 
the same information, and it could be a mish-mash. A situation which could have 
been very well avoided. My two paise.

 

Sadly, this seems to be an ongoing situation here, not just this instance. 
There seems to be a concentrated effort (it could be un-intentional, however 
the general feeling as far as I am concerned and my personal take is that it is 
concentrated effort), to always divert attention or focus of a discussion away 
from the actual subject, leading to an unfortunate situation where, either the 
queries are not answered properly or the responses from the concerned get lost 
in the cacophony.

 

Abhi

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Ramakrishnan
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 02:00 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

Ravi, 
with all due respect.

It's been 15 mails on this thread and there is nothing about what the thread 
subject says: Kannada.

There is talk of Tulu, but no Kannada. 

 

On 20 May 2014 01:49, Ravishankar  wrote:

Pavanaja, 

Thanks for providing info regarding outcomes from your efforts in Tulu 
Wikipedia outreach and Kannada Wikipedia education program.

I will provide a detailed response by tomorrow.

 

Hey Srikanth and others, 

Doesn't matter if I asked for Tulu stats. I appreciate Pavanaj's efforts to 
highlight the outcome of their Tulu outreach work even if it is a passing 
mention from me. 

Ravi


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

[Pavanaja U B]

Dear Abhilash,

 

Here is that part of Ravi's email to the list where he mentioned about Tulu-

 Yet, CIS seems to be repeating sich negligible impact outreach
programs many times in March and April 2014. This includes Tulu workshops
where there is active editor community at all.  

Here is my profile -
<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf>
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf 

 

Yes, I am an expert in Kannada. I belong to coastal Karnataka where Tulu is
spoken. I can talk and understand Tulu.

 

I hope I have answered your queries.

 

Shameless plug:

If I am allowed to blow my trumpet here, you may read this at leisure -
<https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bytesforall_readers/conversations/messa
ges/200>
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/bytesforall_readers/conversations/messag
es/200 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Abhilash
S Unni
Sent: 19 May 2014 12:52
To: 'Wikimedia India Community list'
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

Sorry, I may be getting this wrong or missing something. 

 

I do not see any query from Ravi regarding Tulu stats, did I miss something?

 

Ravi, could you clarify as well please.

 

Pavanaja, I am sorry, again I might be wrong in my understanding here as
well on your abilities. You are free to correct me, please share your
profile which I can read through if you do not mind.

 

Just was wondering from your email domain name (vishvakannada), that I
thought you are an expert on Kannada. Is Tulu also something that comes
under the same remit. Again, I am a layman, sorry if I am getting it wrong
and you are free to correct my wrong understanding.

 

Abhi

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pavanaja
U B
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 12:03 PM
To: 'Wikimedia India Community list'
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

Dear Ansuman,

 

Please go through the thread fully. Ravi asked a question about Tulu and I
answered that.

 

Regarding your statement that the stats are overall from 2007 and not for
one month only - Please read my email carefully. The first stats, ie, total
147 articles is for the period 2007 to March 2014. The current figure that I
mentioned is 284. This growth happened in just one month as I already wrote.


 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of ansuman
Sent: 18 May 2014 21:06
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

The Subject line says "Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia". Why the
stats for Tulu ?

No wonder, they always try to cover up with something else!!!

Anyway in the stats, those numbers are overall from 2007, not just one
month's.




Ansuman

 

On 18 May 2014 20:45, Srikanth Ramakrishnan  wrote:

Editors with 10 edit count? 
That's nothing great. Half of them might have edited from the workshop
itself and then disappeared. Also, edit counts are never considered a good
measure of success. 
Are there any real metrics being used? 

On May 18, 2014 7:00 PM, "Pavanaja U B"  wrote:

Dear Ravi,

 

1.Tulu Wikipedia outreach programs and outcome:

 

Please look at the work plan here and the stats mentioned -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_Ju
ly_2014_-_June_2015/Making_the_Tulu_Wikipedia_Live. 

Pay little attention to these numbers (excerpt from the work-plan above)-  

 

The current stats, as of March 2014 stands like this:

. 147 articles including categories, templates, and talk pages.

. 31 total number of editors; including those who have done just one
edit.

. 8 editors with more than 10 edit counts.

 

Now please take a look at the stats at this page -
http://tools.wmflabs.org/pathoschild-contrib/catanalysis/index.php?title=Wp%
2Ftcy
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/pathoschild-contrib/catanalysis/index.php?title=Wp
%2Ftcy&cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki&listpages=on#distribution_201404>
&cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki&listpages=on#distribution_201404. I am extracting
the same data for current -

. 284 articles including categories, templates, and talk pages.

. 41 total number of editors; including those who have done just one
edit.

. 18 editors with more than 10 edit counts.

These figures definitely point to the fact that the workshops are not wasted
efforts. These changes have happened in just one month. In the stats page
you may also notice that  Tulu Wikipedia was almost dormant from Sep 2009
till April 2014 with some occasional activity spikes in bet

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

[Pavanaja U B]

Dear Srikanth,

 

Tulu Wikipedia is in incubator. The community is very small now. The articles 
did not come just in one day of the workshop. They are adding articles daily 
after the workshop. You can check this page - 
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges 
<https://incubator.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&limit=500&days=30&rc-testwiki-project=p&rc-testwiki-code=tcy&translations=noaction>
 
&limit=500&days=30&rc-testwiki-project=p&rc-testwiki-code=tcy&translations=noaction
 

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Srikanth 
Ramakrishnan
Sent: 18 May 2014 20:45
To: India public list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

Editors with 10 edit count? 
That's nothing great. Half of them might have edited from the workshop itself 
and then disappeared. Also, edit counts are never considered a good measure of 
success. 
Are there any real metrics being used? 

On May 18, 2014 7:00 PM, "Pavanaja U B"  wrote:

Dear Ravi,

 

1.Tulu Wikipedia outreach programs and outcome:

 

Please look at the work plan here and the stats mentioned – 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Making_the_Tulu_Wikipedia_Live.
 

Pay little attention to these numbers (excerpt from the work-plan above)-  

 

The current stats, as of March 2014 stands like this:

· 147 articles including categories, templates, and talk pages.

· 31 total number of editors; including those who have done just one 
edit.

· 8 editors with more than 10 edit counts.

 

Now please take a look at the stats at this page - 
http://tools.wmflabs.org/pathoschild-contrib/catanalysis/index.php?title=Wp%2Ftcy
 
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/pathoschild-contrib/catanalysis/index.php?title=Wp%2Ftcy&cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki&listpages=on#distribution_201404>
 &cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki&listpages=on#distribution_201404. I am extracting 
the same data for current –

· 284 articles including categories, templates, and talk pages.

· 41 total number of editors; including those who have done just one 
edit.

· 18 editors with more than 10 edit counts.

These figures definitely point to the fact that the workshops are not wasted 
efforts. These changes have happened in just one month. In the stats page you 
may also notice that  Tulu Wikipedia was almost dormant from Sep 2009 till 
April 2014 with some occasional activity spikes in between. Let us hope the new 
set of editors who have come in will actively keep contributing to Tulu 
Wikipedia. Optimism is not a bad idea after all.

 

2. Wikipedia in UG education program at Christ University Bangalore:

 

It is true that a spike can be seen in the stats for Kannada Wikipedia. But the 
program will be continuing this year also. Students will continue to write for 
Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year they will also add content to Kannada 
Wikisource. I have personally interacted with many students. There are quite a 
good number of students who are passionate about enriching Kannada language and 
bringing latest knowledge into Kannada by way of adding articles to Kannada 
Wikipedia. Nurturing those students will help not only Kannada Wikipedia but 
also Kannada language and people in general. Again, I would emphasis, let us be 
optimistic.  

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ravishankar
Sent: 17 May 2014 16:40
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

MarHey, 

Any community member here from Kannada Wikipedia?

I would like to understand the outcome of CIS work there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-02/News_and_notes

lists one of the lessons learned as follows:

//Single-session, general-audience outreach has negligible impact everywhere 
(for example, just giving a single talk about Wikipedia to whoever shows up—the 
conversion rate to editors is tiny, and yet we keep doing it".//

(Do give a full read of that whole section 1.3 Lessons learned)

Yet, CIS seems to be repeating sich negligible impact outreach programs many 
times in March and April 2014. This includes Tulu workshops where there is 
active editor community at all. 

To quote Asaf again:

//So just what has the Foundation learned about the criteria for funding 
successful activities? Bartov first talked about a fundamental prerequisite:

"The sine qua non of most programs is a core of self-motivating active editors. 
Most of the things you want to do, most of the things chapters in the global 
north are doing, depend on this core. 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

[Pavanaja U B]

Dear Ansuman,

 

Please go through the thread fully. Ravi asked a question about Tulu and I
answered that.

 

Regarding your statement that the stats are overall from 2007 and not for
one month only - Please read my email carefully. The first stats, ie, total
147 articles is for the period 2007 to March 2014. The current figure that I
mentioned is 284. This growth happened in just one month as I already wrote.


 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of ansuman
Sent: 18 May 2014 21:06
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

The Subject line says "Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia". Why the
stats for Tulu ?

No wonder, they always try to cover up with something else!!!

Anyway in the stats, those numbers are overall from 2007, not just one
month's.




Ansuman



 

On 18 May 2014 20:45, Srikanth Ramakrishnan  wrote:

Editors with 10 edit count? 
That's nothing great. Half of them might have edited from the workshop
itself and then disappeared. Also, edit counts are never considered a good
measure of success. 
Are there any real metrics being used? 

On May 18, 2014 7:00 PM, "Pavanaja U B"  wrote:

Dear Ravi,

 

1.Tulu Wikipedia outreach programs and outcome:

 

Please look at the work plan here and the stats mentioned -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_Ju
ly_2014_-_June_2015/Making_the_Tulu_Wikipedia_Live. 

Pay little attention to these numbers (excerpt from the work-plan above)-  

 

The current stats, as of March 2014 stands like this:

. 147 articles including categories, templates, and talk pages.

. 31 total number of editors; including those who have done just one
edit.

. 8 editors with more than 10 edit counts.

 

Now please take a look at the stats at this page -
http://tools.wmflabs.org/pathoschild-contrib/catanalysis/index.php?title=Wp%
2Ftcy
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/pathoschild-contrib/catanalysis/index.php?title=Wp
%2Ftcy&cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki&listpages=on#distribution_201404>
&cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki&listpages=on#distribution_201404. I am extracting
the same data for current -

. 284 articles including categories, templates, and talk pages.

. 41 total number of editors; including those who have done just one
edit.

. 18 editors with more than 10 edit counts.

These figures definitely point to the fact that the workshops are not wasted
efforts. These changes have happened in just one month. In the stats page
you may also notice that  Tulu Wikipedia was almost dormant from Sep 2009
till April 2014 with some occasional activity spikes in between. Let us hope
the new set of editors who have come in will actively keep contributing to
Tulu Wikipedia. Optimism is not a bad idea after all.

 

2. Wikipedia in UG education program at Christ University Bangalore:

 

It is true that a spike can be seen in the stats for Kannada Wikipedia. But
the program will be continuing this year also. Students will continue to
write for Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year they will also add content
to Kannada Wikisource. I have personally interacted with many students.
There are quite a good number of students who are passionate about enriching
Kannada language and bringing latest knowledge into Kannada by way of adding
articles to Kannada Wikipedia. Nurturing those students will help not only
Kannada Wikipedia but also Kannada language and people in general. Again, I
would emphasis, let us be optimistic.  

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Ravishankar
Sent: 17 May 2014 16:40
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

MarHey, 

Any community member here from Kannada Wikipedia?

I would like to understand the outcome of CIS work there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-02/News_a
nd_notes

lists one of the lessons learned as follows:

//Single-session, general-audience outreach has negligible impact everywhere
(for example, just giving a single talk about Wikipedia to whoever shows
up-the conversion rate to editors is tiny, and yet we keep doing it".//

(Do give a full read of that whole section 1.3 Lessons learned)

Yet, CIS seems to be repeating sich negligible impact outreach programs many
times in March and April 2014. This includes Tulu workshops where there is
active editor community at all. 

To quote Asaf again:

//So just what has the Foundation learned about the criteria for funding
successful activities? Bartov first talked about a fundamental prerequisite:

"The sine qua non of most programs is a core of self-motivating active
edit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

[Pavanaja U B]

Dear Ravi,

 

1.Tulu Wikipedia outreach programs and outcome:

 

Please look at the work plan here and the stats mentioned – 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Making_the_Tulu_Wikipedia_Live.
 

Pay little attention to these numbers (excerpt from the work-plan above)-  

 

The current stats, as of March 2014 stands like this:

· 147 articles including categories, templates, and talk pages.

· 31 total number of editors; including those who have done just one 
edit.

· 8 editors with more than 10 edit counts.

 

Now please take a look at the stats at this page - 
http://tools.wmflabs.org/pathoschild-contrib/catanalysis/index.php?title=Wp%2Ftcy
 
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/pathoschild-contrib/catanalysis/index.php?title=Wp%2Ftcy&cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki&listpages=on#distribution_201404>
 &cat=0&wiki=incubatorwiki&listpages=on#distribution_201404. I am extracting 
the same data for current –

· 284 articles including categories, templates, and talk pages.

· 41 total number of editors; including those who have done just one 
edit.

· 18 editors with more than 10 edit counts.

These figures definitely point to the fact that the workshops are not wasted 
efforts. These changes have happened in just one month. In the stats page you 
may also notice that  Tulu Wikipedia was almost dormant from Sep 2009 till 
April 2014 with some occasional activity spikes in between. Let us hope the new 
set of editors who have come in will actively keep contributing to Tulu 
Wikipedia. Optimism is not a bad idea after all.

 

2. Wikipedia in UG education program at Christ University Bangalore:

 

It is true that a spike can be seen in the stats for Kannada Wikipedia. But the 
program will be continuing this year also. Students will continue to write for 
Kannada Wikipedia. This academic year they will also add content to Kannada 
Wikisource. I have personally interacted with many students. There are quite a 
good number of students who are passionate about enriching Kannada language and 
bringing latest knowledge into Kannada by way of adding articles to Kannada 
Wikipedia. Nurturing those students will help not only Kannada Wikipedia but 
also Kannada language and people in general. Again, I would emphasis, let us be 
optimistic.  

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ravishankar
Sent: 17 May 2014 16:40
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outcome of CIS work in Kannada Wikipedia

 

MarHey, 

Any community member here from Kannada Wikipedia?

I would like to understand the outcome of CIS work there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-02/News_and_notes

lists one of the lessons learned as follows:

//Single-session, general-audience outreach has negligible impact everywhere 
(for example, just giving a single talk about Wikipedia to whoever shows up—the 
conversion rate to editors is tiny, and yet we keep doing it".//

(Do give a full read of that whole section 1.3 Lessons learned)

Yet, CIS seems to be repeating sich negligible impact outreach programs many 
times in March and April 2014. This includes Tulu workshops where there is 
active editor community at all. 

To quote Asaf again:

//So just what has the Foundation learned about the criteria for funding 
successful activities? Bartov first talked about a fundamental prerequisite:

"The sine qua non of most programs is a core of self-motivating active editors. 
Most of the things you want to do, most of the things chapters in the global 
north are doing, depend on this core. It can be as small as four or five 
people, but those people need to be actual active editors ... who edit because 
they like it, they enjoy editing Wikipedia or Commons, they get it, and they 
are inherently committed to our principles like NPOV; not people who are 
editing because there's a contest on and they want to win the laptop. 

"Where that core doesn't exist, it's very hard to deploy any other type of 
program. If you want [a GLAM partnership] with the National Museum of Cameroon 
... how are you going to deliver on what you promise the museum if you don't 
have local editors who will do the work – write the articles, show up to meet 
the curators. So this is the big, big challenge for which we don't have an 
answer: how do you grow such a core ... in a certain country? ... we're now 
cautious about active investment where there is not an active 
community—although it's still possible if you give us a really great idea."//

The only outcome of such initiatives seem to be PR material like this:

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/wikipedia-taps-students-for-kannada-content/article5824

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] On CIS's grants request from Wikimedia Foundation

[Pavanaja U B]

Hi,

 

There is a factual error. I am not employed with Prajavani. I write just one 
column per week as freelancer.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimedia-in-blr-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimedia-in-blr-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Srikanth 
Ramakrishnan
Sent: 13 May 2014 12:50
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Cc: Kannada Wikipedia Discussion List wikik...@wikipedia.org; Mailing list for 
Wikimedians / Wikipedians in Bangalore, India
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-blr] [Wikimediaindia-l] On CIS's grants request from 
Wikimedia Foundation

 

Hi all, I have one important question here.

The Foreign Contribution Regulatory Act prohibits money received from abroad to 
be used as payments or salaries to anyone employed with the press or media.

I believe Dr. Pavanaja is a columnist for Prajavani. How does this work out?

It's just a preemptive question.

 

 

On 12 May 2014 17:45, Hari Prasad Nadig  wrote:

Fellow Wikimedians,

As you all know, Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore has sought funding 
of about 1.8 Crores through the FDC process from Wikimedia Foundation to carry 
out work on seven local language projects in India that includes Kannada, 
Telugu among others. [1]

The funds primarily cover the salaries of the people belonging to the CIS-A2K 
team among other administrative expenses and other expenses as outlined on 
their proposal page. 

 

The proposal was up for Community review and comments until April 30th and many 
have recorded their response about it [2]. Several community members have come 
forward in pointing out that the staff salaries being paid and that being 
proposed - are quite on the higher side (which is up to 2.4 Lakhs per month per 
person). 

 

Apart from the concerns on extremely high salaries for Indian norms of the team 
members of CIS-A2K team, there have been some serious concerns raised about 
some apparent Conflict of Interest [3] and non-compliance with the local laws 
(mainly Karnataka Societies act and the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act). 

However, looks like the proposal has moved forward through the FDC process for 
funding despite the concerns raised and has gotten through to the next stage. 

More concerns have now been raised by several community members on the Staff 
Assessment discussion page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Staff_proposal_assessment

I invite you to participate in the discussion and help steer this in the right 
direction. 


[1] - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form
[2] - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form
[3] - 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/Budget#Budget_as_per_Expenditure_Heads



Thank you,

-- 
Hari Prasad Nadig 
http://hpnadig.net 
http://twitter.com/hpnadig
http://flickr.com/hpnadig 


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Mysore University Encyclopaedia under CC-BY-SA

[Pavanaja U B]

namaste,

 

It is with great pleasure that we announce the re-release of first 6 volumes
of Kannada Encyclopaedia published by Mysore University under Creative
Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0.

 

CIS-A2K has been following up with the Mysore University since months
requesting them to re-release the encyclopaedia under CC. Being convinced of
the importance of preserving the rich culture and heritage of Kannada,
Mysore University has approved the conversion into Unicode and re-release of
the encyclopaedia under CC to make it freely available to Kannadigas all
over the world.

 

This is a great achievement for CIS-A2K programme and Wikimedia India
community. We are extremely thankful to Prof. K. S. Rangappa,
Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University for realising the importance of growing
free and open knowledge in Kannada. Thanks are also due to the Mysore
University faculty and officials, specifically Prof. S. Ravi (Director,
PMEB), Prof C. Basavaraju (Ex Registrar), Prof. N. M. Talawar (Director,
Institute of Kannada Studies), Prof Hati Krishne Gowda (then Chief Editor of
Mysore University Encyclopaedia project) and others.

 

CIS-A2K will be converting the encyclopaedia into Unicode and uploading it
on Kannada Wikisource; that will feed into articles on Kannada Wikipedia.   

 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD

Programme Officer  <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian
languages,

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

 

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K Bulletin February 2014

[Pavanaja U B]

Dear all, 

We from the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) thank you all for your 
support and collaboration and wish you a great year ahead. We bring you the 
details of our work for the month of February 2014:

 

Tewiki 10th Anniversary 

Tewiki 10th anniversary celebration 2014, started on February 15 in Vijayawada 
at Kakaraparti Bhavanarayana College. It was co-organized by the Centre for 
Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) team and the Telugu 
Wikipedia community. Telugu Wikipedia has now completed 10 years of existence 
and there are about 55,000 Telugu articles available online:  
<http://bit.ly/1iI2Pxs> http://bit.ly/1iI2Pxs 

 

Ø  Articles

1.Odia Language's Presence in Digital Media and Wikipedia's Role (by 
Subhashish Panigrahi, The Samaja, March 2, 2014):  <http://bit.ly/1ieF3sC> 
http://bit.ly/1ieF3sC. 

2.Indian Wikimedia community coordinates Women’s History Month (by Netha 
Hussain and Jeph Paul, Wikimedia Foundation, March 6, 2014):  
<http://bit.ly/1cyRfqf> http://bit.ly/1cyRfqf.

 

Ø  Event Organised

1.Wiki Women's Workshop (ICG – Dona Paula, Goa, March 9, 2014):  
<http://bit.ly/MRRJLy> http://bit.ly/MRRJLy. The event is being organized as 
part of the commemoration of the International Women's Day. 

 

Ø  Events Co-organised

1.Cinemathon2014 Bangalore (organized by Pad.ma and CIS-A2K, CIS, 
Bangalore, February 8-9, 2014):  <http://bit.ly/MRRkZz> http://bit.ly/MRRkZz. 

2.Cinemathon2014 Mumbai (organized by Pad.ma and CIS-A2K, CAMP Studio, 
Mumbai, February 15-16, 2014):  <http://bit.ly/P5YGL8> http://bit.ly/P5YGL8. 

3.Wikipedia Mangalore Workshop (organized by Roshini Nilaya and CIS-A2K, 
Mangalore, February 26, 2014). Dr. U.B.Pavanaja gave a presentation on 
Wikipedia with a special focus on students and women.

 

Ø  Participation in Event

1.The Dynamics of Education to Employment Journey: Opportunities and 
Challenges (organized by KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, 
Bhubaneswar, February 21-22, 2014). T. Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk:  
<http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc> http://bit.ly/1ePwqHc. 

 

Ø  Media Coverage

CIS gave its inputs for the following media coverage:

1.Father-son duo promote Punjabi online (by Jatinder Preet, Sunday 
Guardian, February 1, 2014):  <http://bit.ly/1l87b2h> http://bit.ly/1l87b2h. 

2.୧୦ ବର୍ଷରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ୱିକିପିଡିଆ (Rabibara Sambad (Sunday supplement of Odia 
newspaper The Sambad), February 9, 2014):  <http://bit.ly/1igMynn> 
http://bit.ly/1igMynn. This is a feature about Odia Wikipedia's 10th 
anniversary and the story of a dead volunteer community reviving after 8 years.

3.Wikipedia Mangalore Workshop (Prajavani, February 27, 2014):  
<http://bit.ly/1gVMG6f> http://bit.ly/1gVMG6f. 

 

Wikimedia Foundation has funded A2K to anchor the growth of Wikimedia movement 
in India. The A2K team consists of six members, four based in Bangalore: T. 
Vishnu Vardhan, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Subhashish Panigrahi and Rahmanuddin Shaikh. 
One team member Nitika Tandon is based in Delhi. We also have one Advisor Dr. 
Tejaswini Niranjana working with us. Archives of our newsletters can be 
accessed here ( <http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters> 
http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters). Wikipedians from various communities 
can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and 
media, public relations and communications at <http://bit.ly/TOcXId>   
<http://bit.ly/TOcXId> http://bit.ly/TOcXId.


About CIS

The Centre for Internet and Society is a non-profit research organization that 
works on policy issues relating to freedom of expression, privacy, 
accessibility for persons with disabilities, access to knowledge and IPR 
reform, and openness (including open government, FOSS, open standards, etc.), 
and engages in academic research on digital natives and digital humanities.


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<https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india> 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cis.india

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and as individuals, to collaboratively engage with Internet and society and 
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collaborations, write to Sunil Abraham, Executive Director, at 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone

[Dr Pavanaja]

Congratulations to Tamil Wikipedian community

Thaks and regards,
Pavanaja

Sent from phone. Regret pselling mixtakes
On 24 Nov 2013 23:55, "Karthik Nadar"  wrote:

> Congratulations to the Tamil community; indeed a good news. I'm happy to
> be one among them :-)
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> This is very good news Ravi. Kudos to the community!
>>
>> Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender.
>> --
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
>> Treasurer.
>> On Nov 24, 2013 11:17 PM, "Ravishankar"  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> October 2013 stats for Tamil Wikipedia is out. We have crossed many
>>> milestones in one jump coinciding with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations!
>>>
>>> * 1017 Total contributors . We have crossed the 1000 milestone after
>>> Malayalam Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total
>>> contributors.
>>>
>>> * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and
>>> the first time we crossed 100.
>>>
>>> * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest
>>> enrollment in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time.
>>>
>>> * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten
>>> years.
>>>
>>> * We went from 1 to  2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking
>>> population now.
>>>
>>> * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest
>>> in ten years.
>>>
>>> We hope to sustain this activity through various initiatives.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Ravi
>>>
>>> References:
>>>
>>> 1. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm
>>>
>>> 2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryTA.htm
>>>
>>> 3. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Winners of WLM India 2013

[Pavanaja U B]

Congratulations to the winners. Thanks to the juries.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Subhashish 
Panigrahi
Sent: 21 November 2013 10:58
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Winners of WLM India 2013

 

Beautiful images, congratulations all the winners! Congratulations Wikimedia 
India for another milestone and special applaud for Karthik, Kiran, Arun, 
Naveen and all the jury members.

Best!

Subha

from mobile


On 21-Nov-2013, at 9:29 am, Asutosh Kar  wrote:

congratulations winners.

lovely images .

 

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Vishnu T  wrote:

Wow! Amazing pics!! Congratulations to all the winners.

+1 to Karthik and everyone else who were involved.

Cheers,
Vishnu 



On Thursday, 21 November 2013, Karthik Nadar  wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> This year, we received 11,000 images if monuments in Wiki Loves Monuments 
> India 2013. Over a month, the jury team has been working on to select and 
> nominate best images for the WLM international contest and thus also 
> selecting the winning images of India contest. Here are they: 
> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.in/here-are-the-winners-of-the-wiki-loves-monuments-2013-india-contest/
>
>
> I would like to take a moment to thank all those who helped to make this 
> happen. Thank you Naveen and Kiran Ravikumar for sharing your shoulders. 
> Thanks to jury for sending their valuable time in reviewing images. Also 
> thanks to Pavithra, Arun Ganesh and Manoranjan for been part of special jury. 
> Never to forget the international team for their kind help at all the times!
>
> Thanks to Wikimedia India for funding the contest, to INTACH for partnering 
> it for the first time. Apologies if I have missed anyone, but you shall also 
> owe a thousand of thanks from the WLM team. 
>
> PS: Could you help us spread the work through media, get in touch with me or 
> Naveen or Kiran!!
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Karthik Nadar.
> On behalf of WLM India team.
> 


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[Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Kannada Wikipedia

[Pavanaja U B]

Dear friends,

Kannada Wikipedia has completed 10 years. The Kannada Wikipedia community will 
be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Kannada Wikpedia on Nov 17, 2013 from 
9:30 am to 1:30 pm at H N Multimedia Hall, National College, Basavanagudi, 
Bangalore. The guests of honour will be Dr. U R Ananthamurthy, Prof G 
Venkatasubbiah and Ravi Hegde. There will be speeches by the chief guests from 
10:00 to 11:00am. That will be followed by talk by some Kannada Wikipedians. At 
the end there will be a edit-a-thon where Wikipedians will add some articles to 
Kannada Wikipedia.

Registration page - http://bit.ly/KNWP10 

Thanks and regards,
Pavanaja

-Original Message-
From: wikikn-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikikn-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Kiran Ravikumar
Sent: 13 November 2013 17:53
To: wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಆಚರಣೆ 
-ನವಂಬರ್ ೧೭, ೨೦೧೩ ಭಾನುವಾರ

ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಈಗಾಗಲೆ ತಿಳಿದಿರುವಂತೆ, ಅರಳಿಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲಿ ಘೋಷಿಸಿರುವಂತೆ 
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮವನ್ನು ನವಂಬರ್ ೧೭ರಂದು ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.



ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ವಿವರ:-

· ೯:೩೦-೧೦:೦೦ ನೋಂದಣಿ

· ೧೦:೦೦ ರಿಂದ ೧೧:೦೦ ಸಭಾ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ

o   ಸ್ವಾಗತ ಗೀತೆ – ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಚೈತನ್ಯ

o   ಸ್ವಾಗತ ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ವಹಣೆ – ಡಾ. ಎ. ಸತ್ಯನಾರಾಯಣ

o   ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆ – ಡಾ. ಯು. ಬಿ. ಪವನಜ

o   ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅತಿಥಿಗಳ ಮಾತು

§  ಡಾ. ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನಂತಮೂರ್ತಿ, ಜ್ಞಾನಪೀಠ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪುರಸ್ಕೃತರು

§  ನಾಡೋಜ ಪ್ರೊ. ಜಿ. ವೆಂಕಟಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ

§  ರವಿ ಹೆಗಡೆ, ಸಮೂಹ ಸಂಪಾದಕ, ಉದಯವಾಣಿ

§  ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷದಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತಮ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರುಗಳಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು 
ನಿರ್ವಾಹಕರುಗಳಿಗೆ ಸ್ಮರಣಿಕೆ ನೀಡಿಕೆ

o   ಧನ್ಯವಾದ ಸಮರ್ಪಣೆ

· ೧೧:೦೦ – ೧೧:೧೫ – ಚಹಾ

· ೧೧:೧೫-೧೨:೦೦

o   ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ -  ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ

o   ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ – ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ

o   ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರುಗಳ ಮಾತು –

· ೧೨:೦೦-೧೩:೦೦ – ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದನೋತ್ಸವ (edit-a-thon)

o   ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸಿದ್ಧ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಬಂದು ಲೇಖನ ಸೇರಿಸುವುದು. ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಲ್ಯಾಪ್‌ಟಾಪ್,
ಇಂಟರ್‌ನೆಟ್ ಡಾಂಗಲ್ ಮತ್ತು ಕನಿಷ್ಠ ಒಂದು ಲೇಖನ ಸಿದ್ಧಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಬಂದು ಲೇಖನ ಸೇರಿಸಬೇಕಾಗಿ 
ವಿನಂತಿ.
ಸ್ಥಳ: ಡಾ. ಎಚ್. ನರಸಿಂಹಯ್ಯ ಸಭಾಂಗಣ, ನ್ಯಾಶನಲ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು, ಬಸವನಗುಡಿ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು - ೫೬೦೦೦೪ 
ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ

Regards,

Kiran
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features (corrected)

[Pavanaja U B]

[Please ignore the previous email with the same subject]

 

WMF  is introducing  Beta Features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features>  (1), a new program
that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites
before they are released for everyone.

Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview
upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special
preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on
a broad scale, but not in a disruptive manner.

 

Beta Features is released on all wikis worldwide on November 7, 2013. You
can test it now on MediaWiki.org <http://MediaWiki.org/>  and on TestWiki. 

 

Here are the first features you can test this week:
* Media Viewer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer>  -- view
images in large size or full screen. (2)

* VisualEditor Formulæ
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae>  --
edit algebra or equations on your pages. (3) –This feature is yet to work
for Indic. You may test on English Wiki

* Typography Refresh <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update>  --
make text more readable and consistent. (4)

 

Would you like to try out BetaFeatures now? After you log in here on
MediaWiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu
res>  (5), a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences': click
on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click
'Save'. Learn more here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features>
(1)

 

After you've tested Beta Features, please let developers know what you think
on <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features>  this
discussion page (6) -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
&component=BetaFeatures>  (7). 

 

Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia
and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new
features to this experimental program every few weeks.


Enjoy, and don't forget to let us know what you think!

 

Pavanaja <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> 



(1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features

(2) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer


(3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae

(4) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update

(5)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatur
es

 

(6) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features

 

(7)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
&component=BetaFeatures> &component=BetaFeatures

 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD

Programme Officer  <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> – Indian
languages,

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features

[Pavanaja U B]

We're pleased to announce Beta Features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features>  (1), a new program
that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites
before they are released for everyone.

Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview
upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special
preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on
a broad scale, but not in a disruptive manner.

 

Beta Features is released on all wikis worldwide on November 7, 2013. You
can test it now on MediaWiki.org <http://MediaWiki.org/>  and on TestWiki. 

 

Here are the first features you can test this week:
* Media Viewer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer>  -- view
images in large size or full screen. (2)

* VisualEditor Formulæ
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae>  --
edit algebra or equations on your pages. (3) –This feature is yet to work
for Indic. You may test on English Wiki

* Typography Refresh <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update>  --
make text more readable and consistent. (4)

 

Would you like to try out BetaFeatures now? After you log in here on
MediaWiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatu
res>  (5), a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences': click
on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click
'Save'. Learn more here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features>
(1)

 

After you've tested Beta Features, please let developers know what you think
on <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features>  this
discussion page (6) -- or report any bugs here on Bugzilla
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
&component=BetaFeatures>  (7). 

 

Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia
and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, they will be adding new
features to this experimental program every few weeks.


Enjoy, and don't forget to let us know what you think!

 

Pavanaja <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> 



(1) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features

(2) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer


(3) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae

(4) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update

(5)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatur
es

 

(6) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features

 

(7)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions
&component=BetaFeatures> &component=BetaFeatures

 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD

Programme Officer  <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> – Indian
languages,

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Kannada Wikipedia kiosk at BMRCL Metro Boulevard, M. G. Road, Bangalore on Nov.1, 2013

[Pavanaja U B]

Namaste,

 

There will be a Kannada Wikipedia kiosk at BMRCL Metro Boulevard, M. G.
Road, Bangalore, during the special Karnataka Rajyotsava celebrations
(celebrated every year on Nov 1 on account of anniversary of formation of
Mysore/Karnataka State). It will be from morning 10:30am till 7:30 pm on
Nov.1. Please do drop in.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD

Programme Officer  <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian
languages,

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need music clips available under Creative commons license

[Pavanaja U B]

Lot of links here -
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-common-music-download/ 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Ravishankar
Sent: 15 October 2013 02:16
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need music clips available under Creative
commons license

 

Hey, 

Thanks for all the suggestions. 

I found the following for my use case:


1. http://vimeo.com/musicstore?license=cc

Please use the advanced filters near search box for choosing the license,
instrumental option. 

2. http://dig.ccmixter.org/free_music

Please use the advanced dig option there for choosing the style, instrument.


3. http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

You can choose genre and feel there.

4. http://www.freesound.org/

Some cool clips  there. You can browse by tags to find more genres and
instruments. 

5. Audiofarm.org 

Frederick, it will be a good idea in general to create and release Indian
music under CC. There is a severe shortage for such clips. But, I do not
need anything in particular at the moment. 

Thanks, 

Ravi

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Active editors for Kannada Wikipedia reaches 41

[Pavanaja U B]

Active editors for Kannada Wikipedia reaches 41 and number of very active
editors to 7. Both the figures are highest ever for Kannada Wikipedia.
Thanks to all those who made it. 
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryKN.htm 
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaKN.htm


Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD

Programme Officer  <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian
languages,

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unsubscribing - sabbatical

[Pavanaja U B]

Dear Sumana,

Wish you all the best

Regards,
Pavanaja

-Original Message-
From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sumana 
Harihareswara
Sent: 19 September 2013 20:30
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] unsubscribing - sabbatical

Hi folks. Just wanted to let you know I'm unsubscribing in advance of the start 
of my sabbatical - more info at 
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/071542.html
. If you need to talk about Wikimedia technical community stuff before January, 
please consult Quim Gil, qgil at wikimedia dot org. Thanks!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation

P.S. More about me and Hacker School:
http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2013/08/28/1

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: CIS-A2K's Train The Trainer Program

[Pavanaja U B]

> You do have to retrieve information/text from that to be able to use it. Is 
> that something to be tackled later?
Yes

Regards,
Pavanaja

-Original Message-
From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of sankarshan
Sent: 18 September 2013 13:41
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: CIS-A2K's Train The Trainer 
Program

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Pavanaja U B  
wrote:
> ScanTailor is not a OCR. It has got nothing to do with Indian Languages.

Indeed. I realized that it clearly mentions that "Scanning, optical character 
recognition, and assembling multi-page documents are out of scope of this 
project." And, in that context, what is the use case in which ScanTailor would 
be handy? The website states further states that "It performs operations such 
as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others." From which 
I understand that is a necessary step in the flow of actual_document -> 
photograph/scan -> re-alignment. But that generates a digitized text. You do 
have to retrieve information/text from that to be able to use it. Is that 
something to be tackled later?


--
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<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: CIS-A2K's Train The Trainer Program

[Pavanaja U B]

ScanTailor is not a OCR. It has got nothing to do with Indian Languages.

Regards,
Pavanaja

-Original Message-
From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of sankarshan
Sent: 18 September 2013 13:09
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: CIS-A2K's Train The Trainer 
Program

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Nitika Tandon  wrote:
> We understand there were a lot of questions about the agenda of train 
> the trainer program. We have put together a rough draft which we 
> wanted to share with you all. [1] Just want to mention that this the 
> very first draft and is open to any kind of changes. We will also 
> write to each of the participants to know what aspects they'd like to 
> cover and incorporate those in our sessions.

Thank you for the link to the draft schedule. I have a somewhat tangential 
query. I notice that you recommend ScanTailor 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/scantailor/> for the participants. I was 
wondering if it would be possible to share (later, if not now) an estimate of 
accuracy of the software in post processing and handling digitized content in 
Indian languages. Perhaps using random samples from archive.org

And, as a suggestion, I would request that you put up pre-participation reading 
material wherever possible. For example, the sessions on Introduction to 
Unicode or, Fonts and Rendering would require some prior knowledge of the 
subject matter and help the resource person calibrate the proceedings 
accordingly.


--
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<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic print material digitization workshop query

[Pavanaja U B]

I second Tejaswini. Those who are working on Kannada OCR development also
say the same.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tejaswini
Niranjana
Sent: 21 August 2013 11:24
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic print material digitization workshop
query

 

Colleagues working in Bangla say that in their experience it is faster,
cheaper, and less error-prone to create digital texts by typing them in.
Once there is a larger body of digitised texts, and OCR technology for
Indian languages also improves, OCR could become the preferred option. 

 

Tejaswini

 

On 19 August 2013 22:38, Aarti K. Dwivedi  wrote:

Hi Everyone,

 

 In my opinion, it is always better to OCR  the documents. I agree that
it's error prone but there is a

Google Summer of Code project being done by AnkurIndia whose aim is to
improve the quality of OCRs

for Indian scripts.
https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/knoxxs/5001

 

So, maybe not immediately but in short time, OCR is worth it. I am not aware
if any Wikisource in Indian

languages is as vast as French, English or Italian Wikisource. But we should
have it because we have quite

a lot of text.

 

Thank You,

Aarti

 

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

Whether to OCR or not to OCR is a significant issue! When we OCR a page of
text, the resultant is often error-prone, lost formatting, and the
correction requires crowd-sourced correction. Many of us know about Project
Gutenberg. The site provides plain vanilla etexts. But what most people do
not know that one of the very first crowd-sourcing initiatives -
"Distributed Proof-readers" provides a huge volunteer community correcting
OCR pages of text submitted to Project Gutenberg. In fact, I was a
Distributed Proofreader before coming to Wikipedia and that was my first
crowd-sourced experience.

 

http://www.pgdp.net/c/

 

I've also done digitisation in a government archive for five years. We took
a conscious decision to OCR the text and allow the uncorrected layer to
exist rather than take the pains to correct it. The material was used so
infrequently, it made good sense for the end-user to proof-read himself
should he desire to do so. So the real challenge in digitisation is not OCR,
or rather, not just OCR but the creation of an error-free proof-read text
layer behind the pdf/other formatted archive document.

 

Ashwin Baindur

 

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
 wrote:

On 08/19/2013 02:52 AM, L. Shyamal wrote:
> Re-posting a now outdated query from meta
>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalo
re/Digitization_workshop_18August2013
>
> now that the workshop has already been conducted I think those that have
> attended the workshop could comment if this cover Indic language OCR-ing -
> if it did it would be worthwhile if the OCR software used can be
documented
> on the meta pages or elsewhere such as Wikisource. Most of the more
> experienced editors here will be fairly familiar with the use of scanners
> for creating PDF documents and uploading them to places like the Internet
> Archive but the experience or knowledge of OCRs and their success rates is
> a bit wanting for Indic languages (fonts).
>
> best wishes
> Shyamal
> en:User:Shyamal

I looked at the talk page on Meta - thank you, Shyamal!

For those who do not know: OCR means Optical Character Recognition.
When we want to get archival documents onto the web, it's nice to have
photos of them, but it's even better to OCR them so that people can
clearly read, copy, excerpt, translate, and remix the text.

Is there a central list of the problems that OCR software (especially
open source OCR software) has with text written in Indic languages?  If
so, I could help encourage people to fix those problems, as volunteers,
via a Google Summer of Code/Outreach Program for Women internship, via a
grant-funded project (such as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
), or via some other method.

People who would like to make Wikisource more easily useful for Indic
languages might want to contribute to the Wikisource vision development
project that's going on right now:

https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_vision_development

The ProofreadPage extension (part of the Wikisource technology stack) is
being worked on right now in Aarti K. Dwivedi's Google Summer of Code
internship.  http://aartindi.blogspot.in/  She might be interested in
knowing about these issues, so I am cc'ing her.

Also - just because people on this list might be interested! - if you
have an old historical map that you'd like to vectorize to get it onto
OpenStreetMap, try out the new "Map polygon and feature extractor" tool:
https://g

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results

[Pavanaja U B]

Hi,

 

Congratulations to the new team. 

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bishakha 
Datta
Sent: 16 August 2013 09:44
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - 
Results

 

Congratulations, Moksh and Jayanta. Nice to see chapter board members from 
different parts of the country.

Best

Bishakha

 

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia 
 wrote:

Congratulations Moksh & Jayanta. 

 

 

 

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Ashwin Baindur  
wrote:

Heartiest congrats to Moksh & Jayanta. Thank you Arjuna, RK & Tinu for your 
hard work. :)

 

Ashwin, 

 

 

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-- 

Omshivaprakash H L | ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್.ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल्

Kannada SIG

Wikimedia India Chapter
 <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/> 

 <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/> 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language Wikipedias as on June 30, 2013

[Pavanaja U B]

Language

Active Editors

Articles

Page views

Code


Hindi

43

98,034

7,883,389

hi


Bengali

60

26,263

5,521,795

bn


Marathi

21

39,752

3,074,835

mr


Gujarati

10

22,711

1,135,872

gu


Telugu

37

53,023

1,826,665

te


Tamil

90

54,412

5,227,150

ta


Kannada

38

14,667

1,080,624

kn


Malayalam

95

31,708

3,165,913

ml


Odiya

8

4,194

300,195

or


Punjabi

10

6,859

520,463

pa


Assamese

14

2,146

367,532

as


Sanskrit

14

10,329

386,448

sa

 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

U.B. Pavanaja, MSc, PhD

Programme Officer  <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pavanaja> - Indian
languages,

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] NCERT portal goes CC-BY-SA

[Pavanaja U B]

This a great news. I am also following up with some agencies. Hope they also
will follow soon

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of ansuman
Sent: 13 August 2013 18:57
To: Wikipedia-OR; Wikimedia India Community list; WikiProject India mailing
list
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] NCERT portal goes CC-BY-SA

 

 

-- Forwarded message --
From: Pranav Curumsey 
Date: 13 August 2013 18:31
Subject: [WMIN-Members] NCERT portal goes CC-BY-SA



Hi folks,

Savithri just gave me some wonderful news. The new National Repository of
Open Education Resources has been launched, and Dr. Tharoor, the HRD
Minister announced its licensed under CC-BY-SA! http://nroer.in/home/

Iv been following up with Dr. Tharoor and NCERT for about 6 months now,
pushing for this. Thanks to Gautam, Tinu, Savithri, Dr. Nagarjuna and
everyone else who helped make this happen. It is certainly a major win for
us as a chapter to be a part of this and a major win for OER in India.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Pranav Curumsey

 

Thanks Pranav for sharing.

 

 

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki

[Pavanaja U B]

Congratulations to the Malayalam Wikipedian community. 

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Yohann
Thomas
Sent: 09 August 2013 15:03
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia
India Chapter wiki

 

Congrats

 

Yohann

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offtopic] India lost 220 languages in the last 50 years

[Pavanaja U B]

I saw that in the morning and posted in twitter/FB. I have been saying in
all my talks/presentations all these years that India has 1650 languages. I
have to correct myself now.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pradeep
Mohandas
Sent: 09 August 2013 11:03
To: Wikipedia Mailing List
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offtopic] India lost 220 languages in the last
50 years

 

hi,

 

Thought this might be of interest here -
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-lost-220-languages-in-last-50
-years-survey-finds/articleshow/21720601.cms

 

Pradeep Mohandas
How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki

[Dr Pavanaja]

Congrats to Om & Pavithra.

@Netha - it is Pavithra and not me!

Thaks and regards,
Pavanaja

Sent from phone. Regret pselling mixtakes
On 5 Aug 2013 02:20, "Netha Hussain"  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>   Yay, we have a featured Wikimedian couple this month! Pavanaja and
> Omsivaprakash are Wikimedians based in Bangalore. Read about them on
> Wikimedia India Chapter wiki here : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page
>
> Regards
>
> Netha
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Pavanaja U B 
> wrote:
>
>> Congratulatiions Sujith
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pavanaja
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
>> wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *Netha
>> Hussain
>> *Sent:* 04 July 2013 00:39
>> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list
>> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on
>> Wikimedia India Chapter wiki
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>>The featured Wikimedian for July is Mr. T.K Sujith from Malayalam
>> Wikipedia. Sujith's profile can be viewed here :
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> If you know a Wikimedian who you think is awesome, please let me know and
>> connect me with them so that I can get them featured.
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Warmly
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Netha Hussain
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
>> subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote:
>>
>> Great to see you Srikar, Kudos buddy! ;)
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Subha
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On 04-Jun-2013, at 12:55 PM, ansuman wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>> Glad to see you as a Featured Wikimedian. Your work is impressive, keep
>> them coming!
>>
>> Thanks Netha.
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ansuman <http://twitter.com/an5um>
>> *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ <http://or.wikipedia.org/>*
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On 4 June 2013 00:50, Vishnu t  wrote:
>>
>> Congratulations Srikar! Keep up your amazing work.
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Vishnu
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On 3 June 2013 22:37, Netha Hussain  wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> ** **
>>
>>  The featured Wikimedian of this month is *Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka. *Srikar
>> is the youngest ever person to be a featured Wikimedian. His profile can be
>> viewed here <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page>.
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Netha Hussain
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Netha Hussain 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>   
>>
>>  The Featured Wikimedian of this month is Rohini 
>> Lakshané<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Template:Featured_Wikimedian/2013/May> from
>> Mumbai. Rohini is the first woman to be featured on the main page of
>> Wikimedia India Chapter wiki. 
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> User: Netha Hussain
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>> srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>> OOh, Vensatry. One of our long standing contributors to the English
>> Wikipedia!
>>
>> Glad to see him as a featured Wikimedian. Thanks a lot, Netha!
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Netha Hussain 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>  
>>
>> The featured Wikimedian of this month is 
>> Venkatesh<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vensatry>from English Wikipedia. 
>> Venkatesh's profile can be viewed here :
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> If you know a Wikimedian who you think is eligible to be featured as the
>> Wikimedian of the month, please let me know and connect me with them!
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Netha
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Karthik Nadar 
>> wr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] [Press] : Times of India : " Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages"

[Pavanaja U B]

ULS is quite good for typing in Indian languages. There may be one or two
small bugs (or lack of a particular feature), but mostly I am satisfied with
that for Kannada.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Srikanth
Ramakrishnan
Sent: 02 August 2013 14:47
To: Yogesh Khandke
Cc: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com; pr...@wikimedia.in; Discussion list on
Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] [Press] : Times of India : "
Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages"

 

I believe the i18n team has been working on this for quite a while. Do note
there are several tools [built in] for typing in Devnagari with Keymanweb
and Narayam being the ones I am aware of.

 

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Yogesh Khandke 
wrote:

I've done Wikipedia workshops at TISS Mumbai and at Ahmednagar , the former
with PhD students and the later with undergraduates,  the bottleneck was the
great difficulty in typing using Devnagari.

 

Can anything be done to address the issue?

 

  _  

From: Abhijeet Safai 
To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com 
Cc: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
; pr...@wikimedia.in 
Sent: Friday, 2 August 2013 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] [Press] : Times of India : " Wikipedia boom in
Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages"

 

Great to know!

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:59 AM, CherianTinu Abraham 
wrote:

Times of India : " Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi
languages"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-in
-Marathi-Malayalam-and-other-desi-languages/articleshow/21518534.cms 

A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the last
eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20
Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet
and Society (CIS).

Wiki, the world's largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write and
edit articles, didn't have much content in vernacular till a few years ago.
According to the study, Wikis in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi have
added thousands of new articles on various subjects from September 2012 to
April 2013. A few of these pages were viewed more during this period.
Marathi, which had 30 lakh page views per month previously, had another 10
lakh visitors, while Bengali Wikipedia had 14 lakh page views.

While Malayalam Wiki took the top position with an enviable team of 100 plus
editors, the number Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit editors came down. "Marathi
has 40,000 articles. But most editors in Mumbai prefer to work on English.
Pune has more Marathi editors,' says T Vishnu Vardhan, programme director,
Access to Knowledge project at CIS.

"In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has
grown as we have moved to the motto of 'roti, kapda and internet'," says
Vardhan.

One of the reasons for growth is that many browsers now support Indian
language scripts. But this was not the case in early 2000. Though many
wanted to read and type in their own language, there was no browser support,
says Shiju Alex, blogger and Malayalam Wiki editor. Moreover, many didn't
know how to type in their mother tongues.

But once Indian languages were encoded in Unicode, the fonts became
accessible. "There was no need to write Malayalam in English and people
started blogging in their mother tongues," says Alex. According to Vardhan,
communities with better literacy rates seem to have taken the lead online.

"Telugu Wiki is stronger as internet penetration in Andhra Pradesh is higher
than in places where Bhojpuri or Assamese is spoken."

As with most online language initiatives, the Wiki movement was also fuelled
by the diaspora. Tinu Cherian Abraham, a former board member of the
Wikimedia India chapter, talks about how an NRI's love for Malayalam
kick-started the project.

But now there are many Wiki foot soldiers in India, including a blind editor
of Hindi Wikipedia and an elderly contributor from Kerala whose passion for
free knowledge has helped him forget his ailments. 

Regards
Tinu Cherian
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Spooky entry" on Wikipedia

[Pavanaja U B]

I did not find the sentences quoted by IE in this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Narayanan 

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
CherianTinu Abraham
Sent: 13 July 2013 22:58
To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Spooky entry" on Wikipedia

 

Wondering if anybody noticed this article on indian express saying "Spooky
entry" on Wikipedia

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/spooky-entry/1139880/

Thoughts?

Regards
Tinu Cherian 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Improve Indian Biography Images Project"

[Pavanaja U B]

Tinu,

 

Do you want the images to be sent to you only? That's what your page says.
What if I upload them to commons? I already have some in commons. 

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
CherianTinu Abraham
Sent: 08 July 2013 12:06
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Improve Indian Biography Images Project"

 

Thanks Pavanaja &  Srikanth. 

Meanwhile, I have renamed the project to "Incredible Indians" per suggestion
by one of my friends. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Incredible_Indians

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 wrote:

Good initiative Tinu, 

I'll do my bit!

 

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Pavanaja U B 
wrote:

Good idea Tinu. I have many photos but mostly from literary worlds of
Karnataka. I have already added some of them.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
CherianTinu Abraham
Sent: 04 July 2013 17:34
To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.;
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Improve Indian Biography Images Project"

 

Hi all,
   I am working on a personal Wikipedia project aimed at getting more
images of Notable Indians into Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons. 

I am calling it "Improve Indian Biography Images Project" for now...

( I know that it is a very boring title.. But if you want to suggest better
names, do help me :) )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Improve_Indian_Biography_Imag
es_Project 

The strategy is to use your influences to persuade people to donate their
images to Wikipedia/Creative Commons. 

The result , in my opinion, would be
1) Better images of Notable Indians & celebrities to Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Commons. 
2) Improve the awareness of releasing the images to free licenses and
Creative Commons.


There are already  two successes:

Ashwin Sanghi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin_Sanghi> , author -
Persuaded to change licenses of the images on Flickr to CC by SA. Uploaded
to Wikimedia Commons with Flickr Bot
Amish Tripathi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Tripathi> , author -
Released 4 images on CC by SA by email. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons . OTRS
pending 

I am already in talks with several others. 

One of the my learning from this exercise is that, while the celebrity might
hold the copyrights of the images technically , it is also important to get
signed consent of the actual photographer for transfer of  the rights, if
you are going via the OTRS route..

If someone instructs or pays another to take his photo, who holds the
copyright? the photographer or the subject?
 
In legal terms, it is always the photographer who is the copyright owner.
The photographer should transfer the copyright by a contract or written
terms if the subject needs to have the copyright. In most cases, it sound
stupid, but that's how the law is written.  ( Thanks to User:Sreejithk2000
for this gyan)


Thoughts?

Regards
Tinu Cherian
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Improve Indian Biography Images Project"

[Pavanaja U B]

Good idea Tinu. I have many photos but mostly from literary worlds of
Karnataka. I have already added some of them.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
CherianTinu Abraham
Sent: 04 July 2013 17:34
To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.;
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Improve Indian Biography Images Project"

 

Hi all,
   I am working on a personal Wikipedia project aimed at getting more
images of Notable Indians into Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons. 

I am calling it "Improve Indian Biography Images Project" for now...

( I know that it is a very boring title.. But if you want to suggest better
names, do help me :) )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Improve_Indian_Biography_Imag
es_Project 

The strategy is to use your influences to persuade people to donate their
images to Wikipedia/Creative Commons. 

The result , in my opinion, would be
1) Better images of Notable Indians & celebrities to Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Commons. 
2) Improve the awareness of releasing the images to free licenses and
Creative Commons.


There are already  two successes:

Ashwin Sanghi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin_Sanghi> , author -
Persuaded to change licenses of the images on Flickr to CC by SA. Uploaded
to Wikimedia Commons with Flickr Bot
Amish Tripathi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Tripathi> , author -
Released 4 images on CC by SA by email. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons . OTRS
pending 

I am already in talks with several others. 

One of the my learning from this exercise is that, while the celebrity might
hold the copyrights of the images technically , it is also important to get
signed consent of the actual photographer for transfer of  the rights, if
you are going via the OTRS route..

If someone instructs or pays another to take his photo, who holds the
copyright? the photographer or the subject?
 
In legal terms, it is always the photographer who is the copyright owner.
The photographer should transfer the copyright by a contract or written
terms if the subject needs to have the copyright. In most cases, it sound
stupid, but that's how the law is written.  ( Thanks to User:Sreejithk2000
for this gyan)


Thoughts?

Regards
Tinu Cherian
User:Tinucherian







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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki

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Congratulatiions Sujith

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Netha Hussain
Sent: 04 July 2013 00:39
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India 
Chapter wiki

 

Dear all,

   

   The featured Wikimedian for July is Mr. T.K Sujith from Malayalam Wikipedia. 
Sujith's profile can be viewed here : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page

 

If you know a Wikimedian who you think is awesome, please let me know and 
connect me with them so that I can get them featured.

 

Warmly

 

Netha Hussain

 

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi  
wrote:

Great to see you Srikar, Kudos buddy! ;)

 

Subha

 

 

On 04-Jun-2013, at 12:55 PM, ansuman wrote:





Glad to see you as a Featured Wikimedian. Your work is impressive, keep them 
coming!

Thanks Netha.




Regards,
 <http://twitter.com/an5um> Ansuman
 <http://or.wikipedia.org/> ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ

 

On 4 June 2013 00:50, Vishnu t  wrote:

Congratulations Srikar! Keep up your amazing work.

 

Cheers,

Vishnu

 

On 3 June 2013 22:37, Netha Hussain  wrote:

Dear all,

 

 The featured Wikimedian of this month is Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka. Srikar is 
the youngest ever person to be a featured Wikimedian. His profile can be viewed 
here <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page> .

 

Thanks!

 

Regards

 

Netha Hussain

 

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Netha Hussain  wrote:

Dear all,

  

 The Featured Wikimedian of this month is 
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Template:Featured_Wikimedian/2013/May>  Rohini 
Lakshané from Mumbai. Rohini is the first woman to be featured on the main page 
of Wikimedia India Chapter wiki. 

 

Thanks!

 

User: Netha Hussain

 

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan  
wrote:

OOh, Vensatry. One of our long standing contributors to the English Wikipedia!

Glad to see him as a featured Wikimedian. Thanks a lot, Netha!

 

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Netha Hussain  wrote:

Dear all,

 

The featured Wikimedian of this month is Venkatesh 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vensatry>  from English Wikipedia. 
Venkatesh's profile can be viewed here : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page

 

If you know a Wikimedian who you think is eligible to be featured as the 
Wikimedian of the month, please let me know and connect me with them!

 

 

Regards

 

Netha

 

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Karthik Nadar  wrote:

Ansuman,

 

I have added his username. 

 

 

Thanks!

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:35 PM, ansuman  wrote:

Hi 

Thanks for the update, and for bringing in such senior contributors.
I only knew him as User:Gurubrahma, Could you add his enwiki userpage link to 
the  profile?




Regards,
 <http://twitter.com/an5um> Ansuman

 

On 1 March 2013 21:09, Netha Hussain  wrote:

Dear all,

 The featured Wikimedian of March is Srinivas Gunta from English Wikipedia. His 
profile can be viewed here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page

Thanks

Regards

Netha

 

 

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swethaambari.wordpress.com <http://swethaambari.wordpress.com/> 





 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photos of today's Kannada Wikipedia workshop for bloggers

[Pavanaja U B]

Blog link -
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/kannada-wikipedia-workshop-bloggers 

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: Pavanaja U B [mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com] 
Sent: 23 June 2013 21:15
To: 'wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org'
Cc: 'wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org'
Subject: Photos of today's Kannada Wikipedia workshop for bloggers

 

Hi,

 

It was nice day today conducting Kannada Wikipedia workshop for Kannada
bloggers. The workshop was conducted at Suchitra Bangalore. It was a program
presented by Suchitra, organised by CIS and collaborated by Avadhi. The
photos are available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_b
loggers_at_Suchitra. Thanks to all those who participated, and to those
contributed in some way for the success of the program.

 

At the end of the program we also discussed the program to celebrate the
10th anniversary year of Kannada Wikipedia.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 1000 contributors milestone.

[Pavanaja U B]

Great! Kudos to all Malayalam Wikipedians.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Subhashish 
Panigrahi
Sent: 25 ಜೂನ್ 2013 19:38
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 1000 contributors 
milestone.

 

Wow! Congratulations to all of our Malayalam editors for taking ML Wikipedia to 
this great height! Thanks for sharing this Ravi.

Best!

Subha


On 25-Jun-2013, at 7:29 PM, Ravishankar  wrote:

Hey, 

Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 1000 contributors milestone. 

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaML.htm

Congrats for the awesome community. 

Ravi

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Photos of today's Kannada Wikipedia workshop for bloggers

[Pavanaja U B]

Hi,

 

It was nice day today conducting Kannada Wikipedia workshop for Kannada
bloggers. The workshop was conducted at Suchitra Bangalore. It was a program
presented by Suchitra, organised by CIS and collaborated by Avadhi. The
photos are available at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kannada_Wikipedia_workshop_for_b
loggers_at_Suchitra. Thanks to all those who participated, and to those
contributed in some way for the success of the program.

 

At the end of the program we also discussed the program to celebrate the
10th anniversary year of Kannada Wikipedia.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] WLM India 2013

[Pavanaja U B]

Late reply – count me in too

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Arnav Sonara
Sent: 17 ಜೂನ್ 2013 15:17
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] WLM India 2013

 

Hey,

Sorry for late reply, was on the roads (literally!!). Thanks to everyone for 
expressing their interest to help in participating WLM 2013.

I'll get in touch with you all with an official announcement regarding India's 
participation in WLM '13 within few days. Feel free to ping me anytime about 
it. Thanks.

 

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi 
 wrote:

And Bengaluru says yes! ;-)

 

Subha

 

On 13-Jun-2013, at 10:52 PM, Abhijith Jayanthi wrote:





Count me in 

 

- Abhijith 

 

 

 

  _  

From: Harsh Kothari 
To: Wikimedia India Community list  
Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] WLM India 2013

 

Me also :)

 

Thanks

Harsh

 

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal  wrote:

Count me in! :) 

Regards, 


Krutikaa Jawanjal <http://about.me/krujal> 

 

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan  
wrote:

Hi all,

I have volunteered earlier to help out with the backend work. I will also be 
able to do some Outreach work.

 

I hope others will also volunteer. :)

Cheerio,

 

 

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Lodewijk Gelauff  
wrote:

Hi all,

 

After last year, I was thrilled to see the huge participation of Indian people 
in Wiki Loves Monuments! The huge amount of pictures and new users (from the 
top of my head, more than 2000 participants from India alone, ranking it with 
distance above all other countries) was unique, but also was the huge 
enthusiasm of those people. It clearly showed how proud Indians are of their 
cultural heritage. Of course this was perhaps best illustrated by having 2 (!) 
Indian pictures in the top-10 of the world best monument photos. 

 

For 2013, I hope that there will be another Indian contest, but that doesn't 
happen all by itself, for that your help is needed. Arnav and Karthik have 
requested your help (I'm not sure if you've seen it though), and I think that 
without some help, it would be very hard to organize the contest. I'm not 100% 
sure if the board of Wikimedia India has already committed itself to organizing 
the contest (and making available the necessary budget for prizes etc), but I'm 
confident that if there is enough enthusiasm, that will not be a big issue. 

 

So what do you say? Are you willing to help out organizing the Wiki Loves 
Monuments photo competition in 2013? Worl that needs to be done includes 
on-wiki work (tidying up the monument lists, adding information such as 
coordinates, categorizing and checking images as they come in etc - quite 
boring but you can do it whenever and where ever you like) but also a bit more 
organizational: setting procedures for judging, helping find suitable jury 
members, sponsors, translating the website and interfaces, doing some PR for 
the contest, finding government and NGO-partners for the contest in India etc. 

 

You have a wonderful base to work from, I sincerely hope some volunteers will 
pick up the challenge and beat last year's contribution! 

 

Looking forward to many more Taj Mahal pictures,

 

Lodewijk Gelauff (member of the international coordinating team)

 

2013/6/6 Arnav Sonara 

Hey,

After (virtually) helping Karthik in WLM 2012 and seeing other countries 
expressing their interest to participate in WLM '13, I request Indian Community 
interested in helping organize WLM '13 to start planning and discussions for 
the same.

If anyone is interested to help, please get in touch with Karthik or me so that 
we can start planning for India's successful participation in WLM '13. Thanks.



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kannada Wikipedia completes 10 years!

[Pavanaja U B]

Congratulations. Thanks Om for reminding it. I was under the impression that it 
will be in July 2013.

 

I take this opportunity to thank all those who have contributed to Kannada 
Wikipedia over these ten years. 

 

Let us plan to add lot of content to Kannada Wikipedia in this 10th anniversary 
year. Let us not restrict the celebration to just one day. But in any case let 
us a have a one-day celebration  alsoJ. Shall we have it in July?

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Karthik Nadar
Sent: 12 ಜೂನ್ 2013 23:59
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Cc: Wikimedia Chapter (India); Kannada Wikipedia Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kannada Wikipedia completes 10 years!

 

Congratulations Om and everyone part of Kannada Wikipedia. Much to achieve :)

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:38 PM, omshivaprak...@gmail.com 
 wrote:

ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯಕ್ಕೆ ೧೦ನೇ ವರ್ಷದ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು.

 

Kannada Wikipedia completes 10 years today. Thanks and congratulations to all 
who have supported and contributed to Kannada Wikipedia all these years.  We 
have a long way to go and more responsibility to give access to knowledge to 
each Kannadiga across the globe! 

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] MS word add-on to Save As Wiki

[Pavanaja U B]

Save documents from Microsoft Office Word straight into MediaWiki.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12298 

 

This add-on allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 and 2010 
documents straight into MediaWiki.

 

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Pavanaja

 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Servers in India for Wikipedia & other Wiki projects

[Pavanaja U B]

Hi all,

 

Hope you are aware of the slowing of Internet in India due to the cut in 
undersea cable near Egypt. I am finding websites hosted outside India opening 
very very slowly, or some don’t open at all. Websites hosted in India open 
quickly. Google has servers in India. Wikipedia opens very very slowly. This 
brings up the idea that there must be servers in India for Wikipedia and other 
Wiki projects.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Android Commons app v1.0 beta 4 released

[Pavanaja U B]

I have used that. I found these very important features missing-

· Options to crop, resize, etc

· Options to add category

 

Regards,

pavanaja

 

From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org 
[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Subhashish 
Panigrahi
Sent: 21 March 2013 08:37
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Android Commons app v1.0 
beta 4 released

 

Dear All,

 

Here is a beta release of  Android Commons app.


Begin forwarded message:

From: Yuvi Panda 
Date: 21 March 2013 4:17:17 AM IST
To: mobile-l 
Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Android Commons app v1.0 beta 4 released
Reply-To: yuvipa...@gmail.com

Android Commons app v1.0 beta4 was just released into the play store,
and should be making it's way as an update to your phones over the
next few hours!

The release version of the app that uploads to commons is available from
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikimedia.commons

The nightly / beta version that uploads to testwiki can be downloaded from
https://bit.ly/commons-beta (redirects to
https://integration.mediawiki.org/nightly/mobile/android-commons/android-commons_latest.apk
)


Major new feature
=

Biggest new feature being Multiple Uploads! You can now select any
number of images from your phone's gallery (press and hold image
thumbnails, then tap to select more) and send them to commons via
'Share'. There's special UI to make titling multiple images easier,
and you can also tap on them individually to title them. Categories &
descriptions coming soon

Other features
==
- i18n updates
- Lesser file name caused upload failures
- Switched to Holo Dark theme

New features planned for next release are Post Upload actions (Share
to services and Categorize) and general user polish.


Pull requests welcome at https://github.com/wikimedia/android-commons and
bug reports at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=CommonsApp


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

[Pavanaja U B]

But then there is one issue of missing characters in some scripts. For example 
Tamil has very few characters. When we transliterate from other language into 
Tamil, say Kannada, we will have to put one character instead of another. The 
original character will be lost. When we transliterate back to Kannada from 
Tamil 2 or more characters will become just one. One classic example is the 
case of kaanthi and gaandhi. In Tamil, both are written same.

 

There were huge discussions on this topic in the Indic Unicode mailing list.

 

Thanks and regards,

Pavanaja  

 

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[mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of sankarshan
Sent: 11 March 2013 13:53
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

 

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Pavanaja U B < 
<mailto:pavan...@vishvakannada.com> pavan...@vishvakannada.com> wrote:

> This is not a very big task. All Indic scripts are separated by 

> decimal 128 in Unicode charts. For ex., take Hindi “ka”. Add 128 to 

> its Unicode value to get Bengali “ka”. I had written a simple such 

> transliterator long ago, using VB.NET. I did not write any web interface to 
> that.

 

Then I'd say all that remains is pointing an interested party to the source 
code of your tool and, asking them to assess writing a web-app.

 

 

 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

[Pavanaja U B]

This is not a very big task. All Indic scripts are separated by decimal 128 in 
Unicode charts. For ex., take Hindi “ka”. Add 128 to its Unicode value to get 
Bengali “ka”. I had written a simple such transliterator long ago, using 
VB.NET. I did not write any web interface to that.

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

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Sent: 11 March 2013 10:26
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

 

How long a haul this could be? Asking out of curiosity.

 

On 11 March 2013 10:17, sankarshan  wrote:

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana  wrote:
> That last utopian comment needs to be made a reality.

I wouldn't call it utopian, but it would be long-haul. One way of
ensuring that work on that gets done is to frame a project idea and
put it up as a project under Google Summer of Code, preferably with an
interested mentor.



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