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[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: WikimediaIndia-l Digest, Vol 2341, Issue 1

2023-11-08 Thread Dr. Abhijeet Safai

(Reposting with minor corrections*)
Dear All,

It is very disturbing to see this kind of language for a past president of
Wikimedia Foundation's India Chapter! I do not want to go into merits of
stands each one are having (for the sake of argument, let's even believe
that Sudhanwa sir is wrong here), but this kind of language is not our
heritage is for sure!

This could have been said in a better way too without accusations (please
note once we start accusing, we cannot cry foul when another person accuses
us in return). I strongly condemn all these baseless accusations. I know
Sudhanwa sir in person and it will take many lives for us to understand his
greatness and his contribution to Wikipedia and Open Source movement! (BTW
he is pioneer of FOSS activities in Pune). He is so great that I also do
not know his greatness in totality. I have understood it in bits and pieces
these things indirectly, because he does not tell them by his own mouth.

This kind of thinking (pacifying) is definitely not mine and I have learned
it from Mahatma Gandhi from his book titled 'My Non Violence' which can be
found on this  <https://www.mkgandhi.org/mynonviolence/my_nonviolence.htm>link.
It is freely available  in public domain. I strongly suggest people to read.

Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,


--
*Dr. Abhijeet Safai*
(Election Committee Member of Wikimedia Foundation's India Chapter
Elections in 2017)
--
*Dr. Abhijeet Safai*
*Certified Base SAS Programmer*
*SAS Certified Clinical Trials Programmer*



On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 3:51 AM medhavi gandhi 
wrote:

> Dear Sudhanwa,
>
> As the founder of The Heritage Lab, your email came across as very amusing
> to me.
>
> Allow me to elaborate -- in the "heritage labs" (gosh, I wish you would
> get the name right at least) - we don't "build heritage". Actually heritage
> refers to something we "inherit". What we do is create ways for people to
> access and engage with that inheritance, specifically cultural inheritance.
>
> I would normally pass off your response as a very typical
> 'troll-behaviour' one, and ignore it --  but you're a member of the Wiki
> community and I find it important therefore to urge you to understand terms
> such as *post-colonial and post-independence*. The post-colonial period
> typically begins with independence but the challenges and issues faced by
> India in these phases can be distinct -- post colonialism often involves
> addressing the specific legacies of colonialism (ones that we continue to
> suffer today).
>
> I'm usually up for a debate - but why I find your response to be typical
> of "Troll behaviour" is that *your comment lacks any research on our work
> *-- you simply tried to discredit us and "rant". When you use words like
> "seems like" -- you make it very clear that you could not be bothered
> enough to check the link and understand if we have at all covered ancient
> India / or other "thousands of years of history, culture and heritage" in
> other ways. If you had indeed bothered, you would probably come across some
> interesting stories - like one about a 2000 year old artefact clicked by a
> Wiki-community member during our campaign last year.
>
> *What I find shameful *about this entire exchange is that you, a
> Wikipedian -- who is meant to check for reliable citations before editing a
> Wiki page and is meant to gather information in an appropriate manner in
> order to spread knowledge, couldn't even cross check before writing an
> email to the entire list.
>
> I wish you better mental health and positivity this festive season. There
> is enough hatred in this world and we don't need more of this behaviour.
>
> Thanks, anyway.
> Medhavi
>
>
>
> ᐧ
> ᐧ
>
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 at 13:04, 
> wrote:
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: WikimediaIndia-l Digest, Vol 2341, Issue 1

2023-11-08 Thread Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Dear All,

It is very disturbing to see this kind of language for a past president of
Wikimedia Foundation's India Chapter! I do not want to go into merits of
stands each one are having (for the sake of argument, let's even believe
that Sudhanwa sir is wrong here), but this kind of language is not our
heritage is for sure!

This could have been said in a better way too without accusations (please
note once we start accusing, we cannot cry foul when another person accuses
us in return). I strongly condemn all these baseless accusations. I know
Sudhanwa sir in person and it will take many lives for us his greatness and
his contribution to Wikipedia and Open Source movement! (BTW he is pioneer
of FOSS activities in Pune). He is so great that I also do not know his
greatness in totality. I have understood it in bits and pieces these things
indirectly, because he does not tell them by his own mouth.

This kind of thinking is definitely not mine and I have learned it from
Mahatma Gandhi from his book titled 'My Non Violence' which can he
found on this
<https://www.mkgandhi.org/mynonviolence/my_nonviolence.htm>link. It is
freely available  in public domain.

Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,


--
*Dr. Abhijeet Safai*
(Election Committee Member of Wikimedia Foundation's India Chapter
Elections in 2017)

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 3:51 AM medhavi gandhi 
wrote:

> Dear Sudhanwa,
>
> As the founder of The Heritage Lab, your email came across as very amusing
> to me.
>
> Allow me to elaborate -- in the "heritage labs" (gosh, I wish you would
> get the name right at least) - we don't "build heritage". Actually heritage
> refers to something we "inherit". What we do is create ways for people to
> access and engage with that inheritance, specifically cultural inheritance.
>
> I would normally pass off your response as a very typical
> 'troll-behaviour' one, and ignore it --  but you're a member of the Wiki
> community and I find it important therefore to urge you to understand terms
> such as *post-colonial and post-independence*. The post-colonial period
> typically begins with independence but the challenges and issues faced by
> India in these phases can be distinct -- post colonialism often involves
> addressing the specific legacies of colonialism (ones that we continue to
> suffer today).
>
> I'm usually up for a debate - but why I find your response to be typical
> of "Troll behaviour" is that *your comment lacks any research on our work
> *-- you simply tried to discredit us and "rant". When you use words like
> "seems like" -- you make it very clear that you could not be bothered
> enough to check the link and understand if we have at all covered ancient
> India / or other "thousands of years of history, culture and heritage" in
> other ways. If you had indeed bothered, you would probably come across some
> interesting stories - like one about a 2000 year old artefact clicked by a
> Wiki-community member during our campaign last year.
>
> *What I find shameful *about this entire exchange is that you, a
> Wikipedian -- who is meant to check for reliable citations before editing a
> Wiki page and is meant to gather information in an appropriate manner in
> order to spread knowledge, couldn't even cross check before writing an
> email to the entire list.
>
> I wish you better mental health and positivity this festive season. There
> is enough hatred in this world and we don't need more of this behaviour.
>
> Thanks, anyway.
> Medhavi
>
>
>
> ᐧ
> ᐧ
>
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 at 13:04, 
> wrote:
>
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>>   (Sudhanwa Jogalekar)
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 08:21:57 +0530
>> From: Satdeep Gill 
>> Subject: [WikimediaIndia-l] Invitation for Wiki contests and
>> fellowship by The Heritage Lab
>> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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>> Conten

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mahatma Gandhi mini-edit-a-thon 2020

2020-09-26 Thread Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Thanks a lot for sharing! I will be highly interested. Thanks once again.
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 5:37 PM Nitesh Gill  wrote:

> Hello,
> Greetings from CIS-A2K, hope this email finds you well. On 2 and 3 October
> during Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, we are planning to conduct a
> wiki-event. This is an edit-a-thon on Mahatma Gandhi and his works and the
> event is not restricted to any particular project.
>
> Please see the event page here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi_2020_edit-a-thon
>
> If you are interested to contribute please participate. You may also share
> the news and ask others to participate.
>
> Thank You
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

2020-09-03 Thread Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Dear All,

Greetings!

I do not understand much about money but I know that accountability of the
money is very important because money is never only money. People's
feelings are associated with it.

Thank you.
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 4:57 PM Ritwik Agarwal  wrote:

> If I am allowed to add my suggestions here, I saw many wiki talk articles
> which blatantly points out that some view points are explicitly not
> mentioned in wiki information because the editors simply don't want it to
> include making the open source platform itself to be biased.Many people
> around me hesitate to donate to wiki because they say they have to look at
> other sources after reading on wiki because it covers only selected
> publications.I hope this gets addressed.
> Thanks
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:14 PM Abhinav srivastava 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear WMF Functionaries,
>>
>> There is a lot of negativity happening around us in India. Be it print,
>> digital or social media. Society is asking a lot many questions and safety
>> remains a very important concern at the moment.
>>
>> Concerns were also raised during the fundraising test but it seems WMF
>> denied any audience then [1] and even today on this very thread.
>>
>> May I request WMF to atleast acknowledge the conversations. More strength
>> to all of us.
>>
>> Abhinav
>>
>> [1]
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2020-February/014496.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 at 07:56, Nitesh Gill  wrote:
>>
>>> +1 and I agree with others. I am working on Wikipedia from last five
>>> years and during my journey I just felt we are here for each other. I will
>>> go through with Bodhi's point that we are facing these difficult times due
>>> to COVID-19 and cases are increasing day by day in India,  as all know.
>>> It's time to do something for voulnteers from WMF and relize them that
>>> there existence is valuablिe or important. The on-grounded events have been
>>> shut down because of COVID-19 and foundation can plan something for
>>> volunteers without any demand from them because  everyone (needy people)
>>> needs the attention from WMF and this is more important than anything else.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Nitesh
>>>
>>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 4:12 am Bodhisattwa Mandal, <
>>> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1 to everything that others said. We are getting negative reactions
>>>> from readers everywhere. No doubt, it's a bad design with a very
>>>> unacceptable tone to ask for money. In the midst of COVID-19 crisis, it's a
>>>> very bad timing too.
>>>>
>>>> Being active on non-Wikipedia projects, this donation campaign does not
>>>> concern me at all, but for our Indian Wikipedia editors, there is an
>>>> extremely serious safety concern. Hope you have all noticed this article
>>>> and can understand the gravity of the situation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://theprint.in/india/biased-anti-hindu-campaign-begins-against-wikipedia-after-it-urges-indians-to-donate/472980/
>>>>
>>>> So, Indian Wikipedia editors, please stay low and stay safe. This is
>>>> WMF campaign and it is definitely not worth to risk our own lives and
>>>> families for this. Personally, I am telling people to ask WMF fundraising
>>>> team directly when people are asking for explanations from me.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> (As a non-Wikipedia volunteer worried about our vulnerable Wikipedia
>>>> community members)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020, 00:48 Suyash Dwivedi  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1Balaji
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Er. Suyash Dwivedi (pronouns - he/his/him)
>>>>> (U:Suyash.dwivedi)
>>>>> suyash@gmail.com
>>>>> IST (Indian Standard Time) UTC+5:30
>>>>> --Sent from my mobile device
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020, 11:45 PM balaji  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mostly of people asked of if the donation notice was geninue or scam.
>>>>>> Since they know I am closely associated with wikipedia movement they 
>>>>>> asked
>>>>>> me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sudden popup of donation notice seems like a spam or hacking

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] New Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library Card

2018-05-31 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Thanks a lot for Sharing. Sudhanwa sir shared it with me and then I
realized that I have missed this email. This is a very very great
initiative. I am very grateful for this initiative. Thank you.
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On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 1:52 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: "Krishna Chaitanya Velaga" 
> Date: 31-May-2018 1:51 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] New Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia
> Library Card
> To: "kcvel...@wikimedia.in" 
> Cc:
>
>
>
> Get Outlook for Android <https://aka.ms/ghei36>
>
> --
> *From:* Wikimedia-l  on behalf
> of Jake Orlowitz 
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 30, 2018 11:45:42 PM
> *To:* Mailing list for the Wikipedia Library project;
> wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org;
> Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]; Wikimedia & Libraries;
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> wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] New Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia
> Library Card
>
> Hi!
>
> The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available through
> the Library Card platform:
> <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/>
>
> NEW
> * Rock's Backpages (Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards):<
> https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/69/>
>
> * Invaluable (Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000
> artists): <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/68/>
>
> * Termsoup (Translation tool):
> <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/70/>
>
> EXPANSIONS
> * Fold3 - Available content has more than doubled, now including new
> military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand:
> <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/43/>
>
> * Oxford University Press - The Scholarship collection now includes
> Electronic Enlightenment (http://www.e-enlightenment.com/):
> <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/52/>
>
> * Alexander Street Press - Women and Social Movements Library (
> https://alexanderstreet.com/products/women-and-social-movements-library)
> now available:  <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/60/>
>
> * Cambridge University Press - Orlando Collection (
> http://orlando.cambridge.org/) now available:
> <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/58/>
>
> Many other partnerships are available through the Wikipedia Library Card
> Platform: <https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/>
>
> Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
> across Wikimedia projects: sign up today!
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New user right: event coordinator

2018-05-15 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great! I was searching for this thing since many years!

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On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:34 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello, folks.
>
> This new user right will be handy for those of you running editing
> workshops on English Wikipedia to bypass the 6-account limit and to grant
> the attendees "confirmed" status.
>
> Details here:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Event_coordinator
>
> Cheers,
>
>A.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC on 6 April 2018 at 8:00 pm, please join

2018-03-27 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Thanks a lot for information.

Possible topic (if time permits) can include - *Medical information on
Wikipedia* (and responsibility of the editors to keep it trust-able (with
more efforts) and for the same purpose involvement of healthcare workers in
it).

Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Tito Dutta <trulyt...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> Third IRC discussion of 2018 will be conducted on 6 April 2018 at 8:00 pm
> Indian Standard Time.
>
> Possible topics of discussions are but not limited to:
> Wikisource OCR issue
> General Wikipedia discussion
> Focused Project Area
> +(Please suggest topic)
>
> The channel will be #cis-a2k at Freenode, may be accessed from any chat
> client or using the web version: 
> https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Tito Dutta
> Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New bulk upload tool for commons

2018-02-24 Thread Abhijeet Safai

I agree with Ashwin sir. Thank you.

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On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:50 PM, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would like to remind people that bulk upload to Commons is quite
> unwarranted in most cases. Really important is that your images are
> carefully selected for enyclopedic value, catalogued correctly (many people
> skip this step which makes the whole upload meaningless)  and use each of
> your images in articles. Each image should preferably be used at least once
> by you in article mainspace.
>
> The current practice of uploading hundreds of images is mostly of little
> value and essentially a non-activity, unless we do as is mentioned above.
> Request people NOT to spam Commons.
>
> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Suyash Dwivedi <
> suyash.dwiv...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info
>>
>>
>> <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail>
>>  Virus-free.
>> www.avast.com
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>> <#m_3741500097478008809_m_-6365796970823057720_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 9:11 PM, Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just got to know about the new tool
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Pattypan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New project proposal: Community toolkit for greater diversity

2017-09-27 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Supported on the page. Thank you.

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Rohini Lakshané <rohini.laksh...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Chinmayi S.K. and I have submitted a proposal titled "Community toolkit
> for greater diversity" for the latest round of Project Grants.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/
> Chinmayisk/Community_toolkit_for_Greater_Diversity
>
> We would appreciate your comments and feedback on the proposal. Please
> post them on the Discussion page:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/
> Chinmayisk/Community_toolkit_for_Greater_Diversity
>
> If you would like to volunteer with the project (thank you!), please
> reply to this email off this list.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Rohini
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Edit-a-thon series 2018 (India)

2017-09-24 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Thanks a lot for the information. I have supported it on the page. Thank
you.

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings everyone,
>
> I've planned for series of edit-a-thons i n India, in the coming year i.e.
> 2018. I've planned for 8 Edit-a-thons (5 Wikipedia, 2 Wikidata and 1
> Wikisource) across India under the title "Edit-a-thon series 2018 (India)".
> The primary aim to conduct these events to activate the Wikimedia
> communities all over India, especially in regions we hardly have any
> communities, like the Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, North-eastern states etc. and
> also give a kick-start to the less imparted projects such as Wikidata and
> Wikisource for the Indian Wikimedia community. Asaf from WMF has already
> given a boost to Wikidata by conducting a national-wide tour. I would to
> extend this to communities which were unable to receive Asaf's visit.
>
> In this context, I've applied for grant under *Project Grant *under Round
> 2 2017 schedule. The application is located at https://goo.gl/NQh3JE.
> Please review and endorse my proposal kindly.
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New portal on Wikidata: Wikidata:WikiProject India

2017-09-08 Thread Abhijeet Safai

"This WikiProject is to coordinate the efforts to create, enhance and
populate the coverage of topics related to India including her history,
geography, culture, society, people, infrastructure, education,
demographics and anything related between India and other fields such as
science, technology, arts, entertainment etc."

Excellent! I am extremely happy to see it. I do not know how much I will be
able to help, but I will try to help as per my time and abilities.

--
Dr. Abhijeet Safai

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:46 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <
viswapra...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> As the month long country-wide Wikidata Training Tour by Asaf Bartov [*1]
> is in progress through several communities and cities within India, the
> term 'Wikidata' has started rolling out as a new technology buzzword among
> Indian communities and media.
> Choosing the occasion as most befitting, some of us have opened up a new
> WikiProject portal on the Wikidata site, named  WikiProject India.
>
> The page link is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India.
>
> This WikiProject is to coordinate the efforts to create, enhance and
> populate the coverage of topics related to India including her history,
> geography, culture, society, people, infrastructure, education,
> demographics and anything related between India and other fields such as
> science, technology, arts, entertainment etc.
>
>
> For now, an indicative list of topics of immediate interest are mentioned
> in the homepage. As the project grow up and get better shape, we can expand
> the scope of the project both vertically and horizontally.
>
> A query library demonstrating some data drilling methods and samples is
> also available there. Together, we can also build up this library to its
> best form and beauty.
>
> An inspiring model to this venture was WikiProject Armenia (
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Armenia), which began
> around a year ago. We may fork and develop upon some of the work show-cased
> there, including the model queries.
> (Building new queries based upon these are quite easy even for a beginner!)
>
> I invite all of you too visit the project homepage.
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India
>
>
> Are you interested to be among the pioneers of this project?
> Do you want to be part of a team that will build up a great national
> database that will eventually help at least one fifth of the world
> population  in  so many ways that we can not even predict now?
>
> If you do, if you are interested in editing and contributing to Wikidata,
> then please sign up and join the project.
>
>
> More questions and suggestions are welcome at the project's talk pages.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> User:Viswaprabha
>
>
> *1 . Asaf's Indian path of Wikidata conquest can be seen here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asaf_(WMF)/2017_
> Technical_trainings_in_India
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1315, Issue 1

2017-08-29 Thread Abhijeet Safai

It can be seen over here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asaf_(WMF)/2017_Technical_trainings_in_India>I
guess.

Thank you.

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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Pratik Shetty <pratik.she...@tlrfindia.com>
wrote:

> The event page says "Page not found".
>
> Where can I find the schedule of Asaf's city tour dates?
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Executive Committee is Inducted

2017-07-10 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Congratulations!

On Jul 10, 2017 12:47 PM, "Sudhanwa Jogalekar" 
wrote:

> Congratulations !!
>
> That is a nice mix of new and old members !!
>
> All the best wishes to the team !!!
>
> Regrds
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Yohann Thomas 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear One & all
>>
>> As you are aware, Wikimedia India (WMIN) recently in April had its
>> election for all its 7 Executive Committee (EC) positions
>> 
>>
>> At IIT Bombay, WMIN recently had an Induction meeting with the
>> newly elected Executive committee members. This session was conducted from
>> 30th June - 1st July 2017 in the IIT Bombay campus
>>
>> Since the new EC has a good mix of members from Past EC & new faces too,
>> the Induction process was conducted in a very smooth & planned manner.
>> Mr Ashwin Baindur also gave a session on the working of Community
>> dynamics along with the expectations by the community from the new EC.
>>
>> On the last day of the Induction meeting, the EC members elected office
>> bearers amongst themselves. Following are the new Office bearers
>>
>>- Mr Rahul Deshmukh : President
>>- Mr Yohann Thomas : Secretary
>>- Mr Sanket Oswal : Treasurer
>>- Mr Viswa Prabha : Member
>>- Mr Suyash Dwivedi : Member
>>- Mr Santosh Shingare : Member
>>- Mr Krishan Chaitanya Velaga : Member
>>
>> You can find the newly updated Board members page with their
>> profiles here
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Executive_Committee_Members
>>
>> I would like to thank the community for their wholehearted support they
>> have given to the chapter & hope to meet their expectations
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yohann Thomas
>> Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Verification and approval of candidates.

2017-04-12 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Dear All,

Greetings!

Was not subscribed to this list hence was not able to post messages to it.
Now I have subscribed. Have a nice day.

Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
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Dr. Abhijeet Safai

-- Forwarded message --
From: Abhijeet Safai <abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] Verification and approval of candidates.
To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
Cc: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Yogesh <csyog...@gmail.com>, Lu
Kishore AnnamThyagraraja Wiki <annamthyagarajakish...@gmail.com>, EC
Wikimedia India <wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Dear Sudhanwa,

Greetings!

Thanks for your query. As it was shared with me, the elections were
supposed to be conducted in 2016, hence only the name of the elections is
'elections 2016'. However, they are being conducted in 2017.

As the elections are being conducted in year 2017, the current voter list
is applicable but the name of the elections is 'Elections 2016'.

The delay in the elections had various reasons including account related
issues at banks as discussed with me.

Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,

--
Dr. Abhijeet Safai

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not sure how the voter list is prepared. If the elections are for
> 2016, i feel that eligibility should be as per that year and not current
> year.
>
> Can elecom, EC give explanation on this.
>
> Regards
> Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2017 12:57 PM, "Abhijeet Safai" <abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> Please find below the list of verified and approved candidates for the
>> elections. Please feel free to call / mail for any query regarding this. As
>> I am new to this process itself, I might not know all the answers to the
>> questions, but I shall try my best to get the information and share. Also
>> kindly let us know if any modification is needed.
>>
>> We would like to wish best of luck to all the candidates!
>> Draft slate of candidates
>>
>> Election Committee deliberated the nominations and clarified the
>> information on the nomination forms with the Chapter. More details here
>> <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:Elections_2016#Verification_and_Approval_of_candidates>
>>
>>- Dr Subas Chandra Rout
>>
>> <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Dr_Subhas_Chandra_Rout>
>>- Harish Satpute
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Harish_Satpute>
>>- Harvinder Chandigarh
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Harvinder_Chandigarh>
>>- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
>>
>> <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga>
>>- Mourya Biswas
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Mourya_Biswas>
>>- Rahul Deshmukh
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Rahul_Deshmukh>
>>- Sanket Oswal
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Sanket_Oswal>
>>- Santosh Shingare
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Santosh_Shringare>
>>- Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka
>>
>> <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Srikar_Kashyap_Pulipaka>
>>- Subham Soni
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Shubham_Soni>
>>- Suyash Dwivedi
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Suyash_Dwivedi>
>>- Viswanathan Prabhakaran
>>
>> <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Viswanathan_Prabhakaran>
>>- Yohann Thomas
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Yohann_Thomas>
>>- Priyanka Tiwari
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/PriyankaTiwari>
>>- Nikhil Kawale
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Nikhil_Kawale>
>>- Raju Jangid
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Raju_Jangid>
>>- Kiran Ravikumar
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Kiran_Ravikumar>
>>- Jnanaranjan Sahu
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Gyanaranjan_Sahu>
>>- Dr Ataullah Khan Kak Cenjary
>>
>> <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Dr_Ataullah_Khan_Kak_Cenjary>
>>- Ranjith Sanjeev
>><http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Ele

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India elections: How to vote?

2017-04-12 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Dear Members,

Greetings!

As mentioned in the previous mail, ballot papers for all 203 the eligible
voters were successfully sent via speed post on 8th April 2017. Let's thank
Yogesh for this. Every ballot paper has been signed by an election
committee member with the seal of Wikimedia India.

Members need to vote 7 candidates by checking the box next to the candidate
name and sign the paper with their member id.

Each ballot paper must have the following for it to be valid

   - Maximum selection of 7 candidates
   - Signature of the member (the signature should match the one on the
   membership form)
   - Membership id (Please check voters list to know your membership id)

Ballot papers should be sent back via registered post in a small self
addressed envelope provided with stamps of 22 rupees. They need to reach
the office address on or before 30th April 2017.

We take this opportunity to wish all the candidates all the best!

In case of any doubts or queries, please feel free to ask any of the
election committee members (myself or Mr. Kishore or Mr. Yogesh).

Thanks and regards,
Election committee

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Awareness on validation features to the ballot papers for the Wikimedia India elections

2017-04-12 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Dear All,

Greetings!

The election committee of Wikimedia India has a very important duty to
ensure that the election takes place in a free, open & fair manner. To
enforce its duty, the election committee has taken various precautions to
ensure that each ballot papers it receives from the members are valid & the
votes given by the members are valid.

To ensure this following are the security features we have included in he
ballot papers which have been sent to all the members whose name is present
in the voters list.

   - All of the ballot papers have been signed by one of the election
   committee member (Mr. Yogesh). This is to ensure that when the votes will
   be counted, we are sure that the ballot papers are genuine.
   - All ballot papers have the original coin stamp of Wikimedia India.
   - Upon receiving the ballot papers, the sign of the election committee
   member and seal will be checked to ensure the validity of the ballot paper.
   - On the ballot paper, we will also cross verify the sign of the member
   with their membership form and also their member id, to make sure we
   received the same papers that were sent to them.

The Election committee hopes that maximum members vote for this election &
make it a success.


Thanks and regards,
Election Committee
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?

2014-08-27 Thread Abhijeet Safai

It is really shocking to see no reply. This matter is of concern.
Even reporting that 'no one knows from us, we will find out and will let
you know soon' etc. or a mail that 'we have received the mail' is welcome.

--
Abhijeet Safai


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com
 wrote:

 How many months are required to get some answers  from the EC to some
 simple queries?

 Modifying some statements from the light bulb series statements : 
 How many EC members are required to answer members queries? 

 Added Sowmyan inthe mail in a hope that he can help getting answers from
 EC.
 All others are also welcome to help getting replies from EC.

 Regards
 -Sudhanwa


 On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
 sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote:
  Adding email ids of EC members in the mail.
  Anybody from the EC, please respond.
 
  At least inform us about the renewals.
  Should I send my renewal form to Moksh or Karthik or to CIS office or
  to some other place?
 
  As Arjuna rightly said, there is a regulatory obligation on the
  current EC. At least respond to the points related to the same.
 
  I can see at least some EC members posting on social networks. Can not
  understand the reasons for not responding here.
 
  If noone is interested in listening to the community, better shutdown
 WMIN.
 
  -Sudhanwa
 
  On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
  sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I had sent following mail to the WMIN members list about 10 days back.
  As there was no reply for 5 days, I sent the same again adding
  individual ids of EC members.
  There is not a single line of reply to the mail. Not even any
  acknowledgment of receiving the mail.
 
  I am wondering if my email id is blacklisted by EC members or there is
  no one in the current EC who is nominated/interested in responding OR
  WMIN is completely shutdown.
 
  If any list members have any idea about the current status of WMIN,
  please let others know.
 
  Regards
  -Sudhanwa
 
  Here is the mail I sent to members list 10 days back.
 
 
  Dear WMIN members,
 
  There are no updates of any kind from the EC in the last few months.
  What is the current status of Sowmyan? Is he still there or really gone?
 
  There are not even membership renewal reminders now. Assuming that
  Sowmyan is not there, where the forms are to be sent?
 
  What is the status of the grants-earlier ones and the new ones applied
 for..
 
  What are the current projects happening in/through WMIN?
 
  What is the current membership renewal status? What is the current
 count?
 
  WMIN website is not updated for quite some time. Who is looking into
  those activities?
 
  Can someone from the EC enlighten the members please.
 
  Thanks and regards
 
  -- Sudhanwa
 
 
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On CIS's grants request from Wikimedia Foundation

2014-05-14 Thread Abhijeet Safai

I feel that the salaries are ok according to Indian standards. Even they
can be considered less from some Indians seeing the kind of contribution
they are doing.

And again in the end the purpose and work is more important than salary
issue. I have a feeling that my time is being wasted by these kinds of
debates.

Thanks.

--
Abhijeet Safai

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Hari,

Please see my replies in-line.

On Wednesday 14 May 2014 12:51 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:

Vishnu,

There have been detailed discussion on how the salaries seem to
overshadow everything else in CIS's proposal of *1.8 Crore*. And it is
not just me, many other community members who have logged their comment
there have felt that the salaries are quite extravagant to Indian
standards. Even the staff assessment takes note of this.

You yourself seem to be drawing around *24 Lakhs *per annum (which is 2
Lakhs per month!) that excludes travel and reimbursements as declared by
you. [1] I'm pretty sure even the readers on this mailing list recognize
that these are pretty huge salaries that we're talking about for Indian
standards in non-profits for the responsibilities outlined.

Yes, it is no secret how much salary I draw or what the CIS-A2K program
budget is and what we have proposed. Members on this list will remember
that once I took over as the Program Director of CIS-A2K, I have ensured
that we bring transparency to the entire CIS-A2K program including the
project budget. We shared the entire A2K budget with the community in May
2013 on this list [1]. Staff salaries which also includes my salary were
disclosed. Members on the list do know that we have taken this transparency
measure much before the current FDC application (or at a time when we were
not thinking about this FDC application). Neither I nor the current CIS-A2K
team had any say in determining the salaries. There has been an extensive
discussion on this here [2].

I am afraid that in your earlier mail the proposed A2K program plans
number was wrongly quoted along with the per-person salary and I was merely
highlighting the right facts.

Further, on the FCRA compliance issues, the compliance to Karnataka
Societies Act and the concerns about Conflict of Interest - there are
apparently some grave issues *which require that more documentation is made
public* by the CIS as stated by me at:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Staff_proposal_assessment#Assessment_overlooks_some_grave_concerns

and at:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Staff_proposal_assessment#Serious_FCRA_violations.3F

We appreciated this effort on Meta here [3]. Again let me appreciate
the community members and your effort to throw light on these concerns. As
stated in the reply on Meta [3], and I quote here for the benefit of the
members:

CIS has never compromised in getting the best available professional
expertise in complying with the various statutory requirements. So at the
outset we need to state that CIS has always complied with the statutory
advice received from our legal adviser and whenever required also sought
second opinion. Thus to our current understanding we are in the best
possible compliance with the statutory requirements for the not-for-profits
in India. However, because a few of the community members, in the interest
of continuing support to Wikimedia movement in India, expressed serious
concerns, CIS will take every effort to share these with our legal advisers
for their professional opinion. This could take some days, but we are
certainly committed to sharing our legal advisers' opinion on these matters
with the community and FDC at the earliest. This exercise is also important
for CIS as it will help us to put ourselves in much better compliance, if
required.

We are committed to seeking the opinion of our legal advisers on the
concerns raised, as we respect the voice of the community members,
including you. Also it is more in the interest of CIS to better comply with
the statutory requirements.

I'm afraid that just the explanations may not suffice here as the
concerns are serious in nature. I sincerely hope that you shall open up the
documents for at least the sake of transparency.

Please note that CIS has never kept its documents closed to open them
again. CIS gets its financial and institutional documents scrutinized every
year and reports to multiple authorities as part of various statutory
compliances. The Income Tax department periodically scrutinizes CIS's
accounts. All the documents are always open for scrutiny by the donors. We
have made every document available that was asked by the WMF's visiting
team to CIS (which includes WMF's CFO Garfield Byrd) in February 2014. We
had also thrown open all

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Women Scientists edit-a-thon: March 15-16

2014-03-15 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Yes I know.
But I feel that this is an opportunity to contribute more about her in the
article.

Her work is one of the great works where policies of WHO and other
organizations have changed. The word 'mother and child health' appeared
because of her in the medical literature which was only 'reproductive
health' previously! She in a way shown as how the fields like medicine are
also men dominated and how and when medicine thinks about women - only in
terms of reproductive health! She is a feminist and says it with lot of
pride. Her paper about reproductive tract infections is also a landmark
paper and it has given a new dimension to the subject. In her paper on
white discharge she mentions that nearly 90% women face these issues which
was unknown to medicine till publication of her paper!

She has received awards by the hands of president of India.

Thanks.

--
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote:

That's a good call out!
Please feel free to add her name.
There is a Wikipedia page -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhay_and_Rani_Bang that talks about her
work. But we could have a page exclusively for her.

Thanks!

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Abhijeet Safai abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com
wrote:

Just a suggestion.
Dr. Rani Bang is a great scientist who has received several awards of
national and international level.
Her name also can be added in the list.
Thanks.

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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 3:42 AM, jeph jephp...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

We have created a page at http://wikiwomen.in/ which lists all the
articles that are are being created and edited during the course of the
edit a thon. Any article added to the category
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_created_or_expanded_during_Women%27s_History_Month_%28India%29_-_2014,
will be tracked by the page. It gives the live stats on the number of edits.

Jeph

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Abhijeet Safai
abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com wrote:

Great!
On Mar 14, 2014 11:00 PM, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote:

Dear all,

India has a lot of successful women scientists who have made a mark in
their respective fields. However, it is unfortunate that these women still
do not have an existence on Wikipedia. Read this blog
posthttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/13/celebrating-womens-day-the-wiki-way/to
know a little more.

We are organizing a Women
Scientistshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India_(2014)edit-a-thon
tomorrow and day after. Join us by editing as many articles as
possible during these the two days. Apart from creating articles, you
could
also help us by correcting or expanding existing ones. Adding names to the
existing list of scientists would go a long way too.

Find more details about the event
herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India_(2014).
Please add your name as a participant and feel free to start editing over
a
cup of coffee :-)

There is an opt
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the edit-a-thon.

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Parul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ParulThakur or
Jephhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jeph_paul
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Women Scientists edit-a-thon: March 15-16

2014-03-15 Thread Abhijeet Safai

I gave some incorrect information by mistake in previous mail.
Because of her work the term which has appeared in medical literature is -
Women's Health.
Thanks.

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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Abhijeet Safai
abhijeet.sa...@gmail.comwrote:

Yes I know.
But I feel that this is an opportunity to contribute more about her in the
article.

She has received awards by the hands of president of India.

Thanks.

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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks!

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Abhijeet Safai
abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com wrote:

Just a suggestion.
Dr. Rani Bang is a great scientist who has received several awards of
national and international level.
Her name also can be added in the list.
Thanks.

--
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 3:42 AM, jeph jephp...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

Jeph

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Abhijeet Safai
abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com wrote:

Great!
On Mar 14, 2014 11:00 PM, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote:

Dear all,

India has a lot of successful women scientists who have made a mark
in their respective fields. However, it is unfortunate that these women
still do not have an existence on Wikipedia. Read this blog
posthttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/13/celebrating-womens-day-the-wiki-way/to
know a little more.

We are organizing a Women
Scientistshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India_(2014)edit-a-thon
tomorrow and day after. Join us by editing as many articles as
possible during these the two days. Apart from creating articles, you
could
also help us by correcting or expanding existing ones. Adding names to
the
existing list of scientists would go a long way too.

Thanks!

Parul

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Women Scientists edit-a-thon: March 15-16

2014-03-14 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great!
On Mar 14, 2014 11:00 PM, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear all,



 India has a lot of successful women scientists who have made a mark in
 their respective fields. However, it is unfortunate that these women still
 do not have an existence on Wikipedia. Read this blog 
 posthttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/13/celebrating-womens-day-the-wiki-way/to
   know a little more.



 We are organizing a Women 
 Scientistshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India_(2014)edit-a-thon
  tomorrow and day after. Join us by editing as many articles as
 possible during these the two days. Apart from creating articles, you could
 also help us by correcting or expanding existing ones. Adding names to the
 existing list of scientists would go a long way too.


 Find more details about the event 
 herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India_(2014).
 Please add your name as a participant and feel free to start editing over a
 cup of coffee :-)


 There is an opt 
 inhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/17_YMl1bLV0ove3Dsn-LhNQkNNiszWpUag0Ko01tm_kI/viewformwe
  would like you to fill up so that we can understand editor
 behavior better. Please fill up this form if you are participating in the
 edit-a-thon.



  In case you have questions, do write to 
 Nethahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Netha_Hussain,
 Parul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:ParulThakur or 
 Jephhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jeph_paul
 !



  Thanks!

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Women Scientists edit-a-thon: March 15-16

2014-03-14 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Just a suggestion.
Dr. Rani Bang is a great scientist who has received several awards of
national and international level.
Her name also can be added in the list.
Thanks.

--
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 3:42 AM, jeph jephp...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

Jeph

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Abhijeet Safai abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com
wrote:

Great!
On Mar 14, 2014 11:00 PM, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote:

Dear all,

We are organizing a Women
Scientistshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India_(2014)edit-a-thon
tomorrow and day after. Join us by editing as many articles as
possible during these the two days. Apart from creating articles, you could
also help us by correcting or expanding existing ones. Adding names to the
existing list of scientists would go a long way too.

Thanks!

Parul

http://in.linkedin.com/in/parulthakur

http://happinessandfood.wordpress.com/

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

2013-11-06 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great!
:)

--
Abhijeet Safai


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote:

 Dear friends,

 You may be aware that we (my family) have released a font family earlier.
 Here is some background if you are not aware of it.

 On the first death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar(my aunt), our family
 released AksharYogini (Normal) Font on 1st Nov. 2006. This font is
 primarily for Marathi language but can also be used for Hindi (for any
 language using Devanagari). It also has English support. Later on, on the
 occasion of Gudhipadwa (Chaitra Shuddha 1, 1931; that is 27th March 2009) ,
 we released the additional fonts to complete the AksharYogini font
 family. This font family was/is made available on the site
 http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com for free usage/distribution/sharing.


 Today, on the occasion of Eighth Death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar, we
 are now releasing an updated AksharYogini font.  This font is also
 available on the same website http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com

 This is an updated font and has support for the new (MS Windows) operating
 systems where the internal mechanism for font rendering is changed. Also,
 it has additional characters for the current Unicode standard and the Rupee
 Sign is also included.

 Most important is the licensing. The new release is under the Open Font
 License. As such, all Linux distributions will be able to freely use it in
 their packaging.

 Please feel free to use, share, distribute the new font. You can download
 it from http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com .

 Give us feedback on my email id or the official id for the font 
 aksharyogini at sudhanwa.com  You can also comment on the guestbook on
 the website.
 Do share this news and also the font.

 Wishing you a Very Happy Diwali !!

 Thanks and regards
 -Sudhanwa

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Short-term assignment at CIS-A2K

2013-10-29 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Dear Anshuman,

I don't know you. But one thing I would like to share that people WILL
teach about civility if you will behave in uncivil manner. I do find your
words and tone uncivil.

Whatever you want to say, you can always say it in better ways and believe
me, it always increases chances of getting your point accepted.

But using uncivil way of communication is such a bad thing that after a
limit people will not listen to you at all.

In short, kindly behave!

Thanks.


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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ansuman,

 I know veteran Wikipedian volunteers (and previous organizational efforts)
 who got got burnt out precisely because of this approach and attitude from
 some in the community. Asking for accountability and transparency is good
 but that should be done without burning bridges.

 Ravi

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Samkshepa Vedartham, first book printed in Malayalam goes online

2013-08-29 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great!
On 29-Aug-2013 6:21 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org
wrote:

Dear all,

This is a great success to share the effort of Shiju and other
Malayalam Wikimedians to bring Samkshepa Vedartham, the first
Malayalam book online. This is a news article which has come on The
Times of India and copyrighted.[1]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: From a college library in Bangalore, a fragile
copy of the first book printed in Malayalam -- SampkshepaVedartham --
has made a leap to eternity. Thanks to efforts by
MalayalamWikipedians, the book printed in 1772 and kept in Dharmaram
College in Bangalore is now available free on the internet, without
any copyright restriction.

The scanned copy of 'Sampkshepa Vedartham or Nasranikal Okkeyum
Ariyendunna Sampkshepa Vedartham' will be a major source of
information for those interested in the history and development of
Malayalam script. The book by Italian priest Clement Peanices is in
the form of Christian religious teaching in question-answer format.
The first edition of the book was printed using Malayalam types in
Rome in 1772 and was brought to the state in 1774.

A scanned copy of 'Albhabetum Grandonico Malabaricum', the first book
to use Malayalam types, is already available for public use. It is
believed that the Malayalam portion of this Latin book was printed
using the movable types made to print 'Sampkshepa Vedartham'.

Shiju Alex, an active Wikipedian, had taken the initiative to bring
out 'Sampkshepa Vedartham' on the internet with the support of other
members of Malayalam Wikipedia. Ironically, one of the oldest copies
of the book is housed in the Kerala university library. Though it was
digitized using the state grant, it is not available for public use.

Sampkshepa Vedartham was printed almost 241 years ago. The book gives
insights into the old type of Malayalam numerals. No space is left
between words. Also signs, such as full stops, are not used between
sentences, Alex said. He said the scanned copy of the book has been
uploaded on archives.org, where interested people can read it online
or download the PDF format. We have begun steps to upload it in
Wikipedia commons (an online repository of media files). A digitized
version will also be available in Malayalam Wikisource, he added.

1.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/First-book-printed-in-Malayalam-goes-online/articleshow/22125735.cms

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

2013-08-14 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Excellent!!!


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote:

 to WikimediaIndia-l
 Hi

 2013/8/14 Savithri Singh singh.savit...@gmail.com

 Hi,

 30  (Classes IX and X) of the 334 NCERT textbooks are already available.
 The rest should be up in time!.

 http://nroer.gov.in/home/

 We need to get more people to contribute to the site by way of images,
 text, whatever!!

 NCERT books are in English, Hindi and Urdu.  We need to get States
 activated so that they give in their books in the the local languages!!

 Congratulations all - its been a long struggle - several of us have been
 in discussion with educators/NCERT over a long time for materials to go CC
 By SA - and Pranav's interaction with Shashi Tharoor clinched it!!

 :-) Thanks for the update and background to this milestone.
 Congratulations to yourself, Pranav and  everyone associated with this
 accomplishment. I hope this can help in convincing similar state government
 bodies also to release their content under free license.

 Cheers
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy @ VVIT Engineering College, Guntur, India

2013-08-04 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great!

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 6:36 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally 
radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com wrote:

 A WikiAcademy is planned @ VVIT Engineering College, Guntur on 17th Aug
 2013

 400 students are expected to join the presentation
 and 100 students for hands-on lab session

 Event Page (in telugu):

 http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B0%A3_%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81/%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%811

 We invite Telugu Wikipedians to join us.

 Interested volunteers, please register at the event page.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia editing session for journalism students at Sophia College, Mumbai

2013-08-01 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great feedback!

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Rohini Lakshané
rohini.laksh...@gmail.comwrote:

 This is an unedited report of the lecture-cum-demo written by one of the
 students who attended it.

 *Wikipedia: Democratic Ritual of Knowledge Transfer *

 What can I say about Wikipedia? Ok, let me ask, can you imagine a world
 without Wikipedia? I always wonder who wrote, reviewed, edited, curated and
 moderated 30 million articles in 286 languages. Answer is you and me and us!

 Wikipedia, world’s largest and the most referenced work on Internet, has
 been ranked at seventh position globally on Alexa as of June 2013. It has,
 estimated, 365 million readers worldwide. Though numbers are impressive
 enough to boggle one’s mind, what truly electrifies the spinal cord is the
 way Wikipedia functions. Anyone from any corner of the world (Now, you can
 ask if earth is round or square? Go to Wikipedia, you will get interlinked
 references from Heliocentricism to Geocentrism, from Copernicus to Galileo,
 from Copernican Revolution to Renaissance, and thus traverse the complete
 circle of knowledge!) can write an article. Then some other volunteers keep
 the wheel rolling by editing and validating the existing article and by
 adding required citation, views and counterviews. This invisible
 chain-reaction keeps flourishing Wikipedia just like an unnoticed food
 chain of natural ecosystem.


 On Saturday, 13th July 2013, workshop on Wikipedia was organized by
 volunteers of Wikimedia Foundation, in association with SCM, Sophia
 Polytechnic, Mumbai. The workshop was conducted by Bishakha Datta and
 Rohini Lakshane from Wikimedia Foundation, Mumbai. After giving the brief
 on history of Wikipedia, how Wikipedia functions and how one can become a
 part of this knowledge thriving community, instructors and volunteers
 facilitated SCM students to create articles on Wikipedia. SCM students
 successfully created two articles on Dina Vakil, the first woman resident
 editor of The Times of 
 Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_India's
 Bombay edition and Ritu Menon, the co-founder, writer and publisher of
 India's first feminist publishing house, *Kali for 
 Women*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_for_Women.
 The workshop truly helped students to realize that how the power of
 technology, information and collaborative effort can drive people towards
 the informed and knowledge-intensive society.

 After attending the workshop I couldn’t stop myself and posted the
 following note dedicated to my all friends:

 · Do you think 30 million articles in 286 languages is too loud a
 figure? If you are sceptical, then that’s great. Go and investigate
 further. Provide the correct figure (if the given figure is erroneous) and
 yeah provide the reference/citation as well.



 Bingo! That’s how the whole Wikipedia has been erected, by sharing and
 contributing knowledge. Contribute about your locality, personalities,
 culture, tradition, etc.

 · Believe in good faith. Knowledge is a path not the signboard.
 Be in good faith, put information, views and counter-views with reference,
 and don’t be judgmental. Neutrality is the nature of Wikipedia.

 · Acknowledge the effort. Not only when you write a research
 paper or contribute to Wikipedia, but also when you receive help, love and
 care of someone, do acknowledge. Democracy cannot exist without
 thankfulness and compassion. Wikipedia is truly democratic way of
 knowledge transfer - for the people, of the people, by the people.

 -   Parth Vyas (22nd July 2013, Mumbai)



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

2013-08-01 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great to know!

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:59 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:

*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] Help with filing RTIs

2013-06-03 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Thanks.
Great initiative.

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear All,

 During interactions with many Wikipedians, it has been realized that many
 are looking for data, that is otherwise not available in the public domain,
 which could be used for enhancing quality of articles/projects on
 Wikipedia. Please let us know if anyone of you requires help in filing
 RTIs. We could file RTIs for any particular data on your behalf.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offtopic] - See Changes in English Wikipedia on a map in real time

2013-05-25 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Excellent!

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Excellent!!
 Congrats to  Stephen LaPorte https://github.com/slaporte and Mahmoud
 Hashemi https://github.com/mahmoud, the makers of this.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Is there any easy way to add photo link to wikipedia articles?

2013-05-21 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Dear T.Shrinivasan,

As far as I know, the process you have mentioned is correct one. I dont
know any easier method.

Thanks.

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote:

 When I upload photos to commons, I try to add the photos to relevant pages.

 It seems a tough process.

 1. copy the info of the image from commons.( using use this file )
 2. open the relevant page in wikipedia
 3. click the edit page.
 4. paste the image info from the clip board.
 5. save the page.

 Every time, I have to do the same for all the images.

 Is there any easy way or widget to automate this?

 A gallery can be added by clicking a link in wikipedia page, with the
 images link we paste.

 Share your thoughts on this.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for an announcement mailing list

2013-05-17 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Dear Karthik,
Good Morning!
I also feel same as Mr. Arun.
Thanks

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote:

 I echo Arun

 Regards,
 Dhaval
 On May 17, 2013 3:44 PM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote:

 Me thinks we have a small community that is active. I feel it is not a
 good idea to keep forking lists.
 We already have a problem with many community members not being aware of
 the India list.
 Now another one?

 I already struggle to keep track and manage membership of multiple lists.
 That is my view. Lets hear from others too.

 regards
 Arun


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 Dear all,

 I suggest we have an announcement mailing list. I sometimes see certain
 mails flooding too mailing list, and it really spams the inbox.

 If we have an announcement list, we can suggest everyone to subscribe to
 the list who is interested in announcement from Indian communities like the
 Chapter , the A2K and various other cities and languages communities.
 Preferably, the mailing list should be only for one way communication.

 Admins at this (Wikimedia India) mailing list shall subscribe the
 announcement mailing list with this email-id
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] मराठी विकिपिडीयाच्या १० वर्षाच्या वाटचालीचा आढावा - सकाळ वृत्तसेवा

2013-05-10 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great to know.
:)

2013/5/2 Sagar Markal shree.sagar...@gmail.com

 *१ मे २०१३ महाराष्ट्र दिनानिमित्त आणि मराठी विकिपिडीयाच्या १० वर्षाच्या
 वाटचालीचा आढावा -  सकाळ वृत्तसेवा*
 *
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 *Link*
 http://epaper2.esakal.com/2May2013/Normal/Mumbai/page7.htm



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Sexism in English Wikipedia - Two articles by Amanda Filipacchi

2013-04-29 Thread Abhijeet Safai

It is really shocking and shameful behavior.
To my surprise, the edit war is still going on there.
I have put the article to my 'watch list'.
It can be a good assignment for those who want to work for the issue of
gender bias to restore the article to its original form. (At least to see
that more and more meaningful information is added) It will be learning
about rules in the process.

I dont know how much time I will be able to dedicate for this right now.
But I plan to edit the article and to fight vandalism there.

Thanks.

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Ashwin Baindur
ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:

Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female
Novelistshttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html?emc=tnttntemail1=y_r=0
by Amanda Filipacchi
New York Times, Published: April 24, 2013

I JUST noticed something strange on Wikipedia. It appears that gradually,
over time, editors have begun the process of moving women, one by one,
alphabetically, from the “American Novelists” category to the “American
Women Novelists” subcategory...

Wikipedia’s
Sexismhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism.html?emc=tnttntemail1=y
by Amanda Filipacchi
New York Times, Published: April 27, 2013

Early last week I noticed something strange on Wikipedia. It appeared
that, gradually, over time, the volunteer editors who create the site had
begun moving women, one by one, from the “American Novelists” category to
the “American Women Novelists” subcategory. ... s soon as the Op-Ed
article appeared, unhappy Wikipedia editors pounced on my Wikipedia page
and started making alterations to it, erasing as much as they possibly
could without (I assume) technically breaking the rules. They removed the
links to outside sources, like interviews of me and reviews of my novels

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

2013-04-01 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great!


2013/4/1 Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com

 There is a media coverage in Marathi newspaper Sakal, Mumbai edition
 about 10 years of Marathi Wikipedia. Please check out.

 -Sudhanwa

 ~~
 Date: 2013/3/31
 Subject: दशकपूर्ती  मराठी विकिपीडियाची - सकाळ वृत्तसेवा (सुधारित)
 To:


 मराठी विकिपिडीयाच्या १० वर्षाच्या वाटचालीचा सकाळ ने आजच्या पुरवणीत आढावा
 घेवून दशकपूर्ती ची सुरुवात करून दिली आहे. आपल्या माहितीसाठी लिंक देत आहे.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Blog on DNA

2013-03-14 Thread Abhijeet Safai

This is really amazing!

Congrats.

:)

- Abhijeet

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 WikipeDNA, a community blog on topics pertaining to Wikipedia and other
 projects, is now live on DNA Blogs.
 http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipedna

 This is the first blog post:
 http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post_wikipedia-celebrates-women-s-history-month-with-edit-a-thons-and-workshops_1811125

 I'll be putting up stuff related to events, how tos, etc. If you'd like to
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] decline in editors

2013-03-07 Thread Abhijeet Safai

I second Amir.

Thanks
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Wikipedia related activities in GNUnify 2013

2013-02-17 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Thanks for immediate link to photos and videos!
:)

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi 
subhash...@cis-india.org wrote:

 Hi All,

 Pune has just celebrated the glory of free and open source technologies in
 GNUnify 2013. Many reports and updates about the activities are coming
 soon. In the mean time those who had attended this stretch their tired
 shoulders and write long reports enjoy some photos and podcasts of few
 sessions uploaded on Commons:
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GNUnify_2013

 Tweets about the activities:
 https://twitter.com/search?q=%23gnunifysrc=typdhttps://twitter.com/search?q=#gnunifysrc=typd

 - Subha

 On 14-Feb-2013, at 9:44 AM, Vishnu t wrote:

 Dear Sudhanwa,

 Thanks for sharing this. Very interesting mix of titles. We should ensure
 to record them and put up on CC. As these can be very good source for the
 Community.

 All the best with GNUnify and I am very excited to be there.

 Best,
 Vishnu


 On 14 February 2013 02:16, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 In Gnunify 2013, we are having many activities related to Wikipedia.
 Here is a list(not in any particular order of preference/importance):

 Day 1: 15th Feb.
 Talk: Introduction to Creative Commons By Jessica Coats
 Talk:Translations for Wikipedia made easy By Siebrand Mazeland, Niklas
 Laxstrom
 Talk:Localization Needs and Ideas - REBOOT By Runa Bhattacharjee

 Day 2: 16th Feb
 Wikiacademy
 Talk:Open Education Resources By Jane Hornibrook
 Talk: Introduction to other Wikimedia projects - Wikimedia commons,
 Wikisource etc
 Workshop: Building input methods for your own language By Amir Aharoni
 Talk: How to contribute to Wikipedia in your favourite language By
 Alolita Sharma
 Talk:Internationalizing your code with Milkshake By Santhosh Thottingal
 Talk: Query.IME - Contributing an input method for your preferred
 language By Amir Aharoni, Yuvi Panda

 Registration for attendees is already open. Please register on the
 site www.gnunify.in
 This is a great opportunity to participate in Wikimedia activities. Do
 join us in the conference !!

 Regards
 -Sudhanwa Jogalekar
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain)

2013-02-15 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Really interesting and nice to know.
Thanks.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:48 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:

 Well done Netha. By seeing you contributing, I am sure many woman will
 come forward. :-)

 Ansuman



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 Dear all,

 I am not sure if this was forwarded to the India list but Huffington post
 has a guest blog post from Netha this week. Congratulations Netha! :)

 Best,

 Noopur

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 Most of us know Wikipedia as the free online encyclopedia, written
 collaboratively by millions of volunteers from around the world. I am 
 onehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain
  of those writers for the last 3 years. It was by writing articles about
 medical sciences that I started contributing to Wikipedia. Later, I was
 intrigued by the enormous volume of information available on Wikipedia, and
 was curious to find out who actually write them - which made me delve into
 the editor demographics. It really made me upset when I figured out that
 only around 9%http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf
  of the contributors to Wikipedia are women. In fact, I knew that so few
 women write on Wikipedia, but I hadn't expected the figure to be as low as
 9 percent.

 Diversity of opinion is the essence of any encyclopedia. Having equal
 representation from women will bring in wider perspectives, and increase
 the neutrality of the articles on Wikipedia. With men creating most of the
 content for Wikipedia, certain subjects might be covered more than a
 subject that may be of interest to women. Women not writing on Wikipedia
 mean that certain subjects may not be receiving the attention they
 rightfully deserve.

 The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that hosts
 Wikipedia, had recognized this problem sooner than I did. The Wikimedia
 Foundation has launched various programs to bridge the gender gap, and the
 latest addition to the list is the WikiWomen's 
 Collaborativehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative
 .

 The WikiWomen's Collaborative was created in September 2012 by women
 around the world who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and want
 to encourage others to do the same. The project was aimed at helping women
 and transwomen to support one another and engage in programs that help the
 Wikimedian community to bring in new women editors. A variety of 
 eventshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Final_report,
 like edit-a-thons, interviews and wikiwomen parties were conducted as a
 part of the collaborative.

 In May 2012, a WikiWomenCamphttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp
  was organized for women in the Wikimedia movement to get together and
 discuss about the various issues related to being women involved in the
 Wikimedia community with like-minded women. Over 20 women from different
 countries participated in the camp to brainstorm solutions for existing
 problems that concern women, and suggest future plans to collaborate with
 one another. It is customary to conduct a WikiWomen's 
 luncheonhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiChix_2011_Lunch
  at Wikimania https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/, the global
 gathering of Wikimedians, exclusively for the women participants.

 Organizations like the Ada Initiative http://adainitiative.org/, named
 for the world's first programmer Countess Ada Lovelace, support women
 working with open knowledge projects like Wikipedia by creating resources
 for women in open stuff, conducting conferences and advising

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Republic Day - Marathi Wikipedia Workshop : Report

2013-02-11 Thread Abhijeet Safai

I second Abhishek!
:)

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi 
i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:



 Thank you so much Ashwin for appreciation..As one of founder member - Your
 mail means alot to us.

 P.S : Workshop was conducted in 'Jnana Prabodhini', and many kids and
 students were asking about 'you'. You were there for past two Wikipedia
 anniversaries and present for almost all Workshops. Activities can be
 scaled up and could be more inspiring in your presence. We all miss you.
 .Please come back soon :)

 Take Care.



 Best Regards,
 Abhishek Suryawanshi,
 On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune





 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Ashwin Baindur 
 ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:

 Great work Suryawanshi, Suryawanshi  Wikipedia Pune Club members!

 Ashwin


 On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Niraj Suryawanshi 
 niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Shrikant,
 Have u been through the articles yet?
 any reviews you want to share with us to help us improve better??




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 Regards  Thanks,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gnunify 2013 - CFP open

2013-01-07 Thread Abhijeet Safai

Great!
Tanks for information.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Sheel Sindhu Manohar
tuxophi...@gmail.comwrote:



 Hi,

 Gnunify 2013 ( v11 ) is announced. Cfp is open (there does not seem to
 be a closing date, but better to register talks early).

 Date: 15th, 16th and 17th Feb 2013

 Venue:
 Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR),Pune.

 Tracks include.
 System Admin (Networking, security etc)
 Web Techologies
 Mobile Techonoligies
 Cloud Computing
 Scientific Computing
 System  Programmin
 FOSS - Generic Topics
 Current Trends

 You have to register as user and then submit talk/workshop.
 http://www.gnunify.in/user/register
 (try forgot password with mail id, if you registered last year).

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 *Sheel Sindhu Manohar ( शील सिंधु मनोहर ) http://ssmanohar.in

 *www.jmilug.org *

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