[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikisignpost article on impact of Google Translation Project (2009-2011) on Telugu Wikipedia

2015-06-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, You may like to read my article titled Small impact of the large Google Translation Project on Telugu Wikipedia [1] on this week's signpost as a special report in this weeks edition of Signpost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-06-24/Special_report Sharing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Ravishankar, Congratulations on taking up the Program Director role. Best wishes Arjuna On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Jayanta Nath jaya...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, It is my pleasure to announce Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as the Program Director of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?

2014-09-01 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
SJ, There was an update about EC emergency conf call on India list. which announced new office bearers. You can see the archived email https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-September/011504.html Hope the the new office bearers will respond as soon as they settle down.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?

2014-06-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
/File:Wmin_ec_codeofconduct.pdf which specifically mandates them to conduct the chapter affairs consistent with its purpose and to advance Chapter's interests and also makes them accountable to general body and community, I hope that EC takes prompt action in this regard. Sincerely Arjuna Rao Chavala Co-founder

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vikaspedia: reaching the unreached in India

2014-04-28 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone seen or know of this? Found it by accident from this article: http://discover.isif.asia/2014/02/will-india-succeed-where-wikipedia-has-failed/ Wondering what it means for these language wikipedias -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Gujarati Wikisource - completes 50 books

2014-03-29 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Sushant, Congratulations to the Gujarati Wikisource contributors on this important milestone. Based on a brief visit to the site and also from Proofread page stats http://toolserver.org/~phe/statistics.php, I found that Proofread extension

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for funding Decennial celebrations of Telugu Wikipedia

2014-01-23 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Wikimedians to join us for the historic Telugu Wikipedia Decennial celebrations in the beautiful city of Vijayawada[1] on 15th and 16th Feb 2014. Sincerely Arjuna Rao Chavala Telugu Wikipedian and Member of Advisory Committee for the Event. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayawada On Wed, Jan 22

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Thank you

2014-01-13 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] Thank you To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi Sowmyan, I am sorry to know about your decision to quit as the Executive Manager

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Wikipedians featured in Editing Wikipedia outreach booklet

2014-01-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Subha, On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Not to forget we also have Ganesh from Nepali and Noopur from Gujarati community featured! So, with Viswa and Netha 3 Indic language communities. Is that not amazing? :) Thanks for the update.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM activity at the National Museum, New Delhi

2014-01-07 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Subha and Wikimedians, We will sharing a detailed note (blog post) and pictures. It was an incredible experience over 4 days given the interest reciprocated by the Museum leadership, staff and volunteers. We

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Wikipedians featured in Editing Wikipedia outreach booklet

2014-01-07 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, The new edition of Welcome to Wikipedia called Editing Wikipedia features Viswa (Page 6 ) and Netha (Page 16) from India. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editing_Wikipedia_brochure_EN.pdf Congratulations Viswa and Netha! Cheers Arjuna

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi

2013-12-17 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi In case you were not able to access the links due to Server problem, you can access them now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers Arjuna 2013/12/16 Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Hi, The results of the surveyhttps://mentor.ieee.org/1908.1/dcn/13/1-13-0006-00-MTGS-hindi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi

2013-12-16 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, The results of the surveyhttps://mentor.ieee.org/1908.1/dcn/13/1-13-0006-00-MTGS-hindi-virtual-keyboard-evaluation-ieee-wg1908-1-survey-responses.pdfare available. Thanks for your support Arjuna Rao Chavala 1908.1 WG Chair https://mentor.ieee.org/1908.1

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (Announcement) Selection of Community Communications Consultant at CIS-A2K

2013-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Vishnu, Thanks for your update. 2013/12/10 Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com Dear Wikimedians, I am happy to share with you that Mr. Rahimanuddin Shaik has been selected for the role of Community Communications Consultant at CIS-A2K! Please join me in congratulating him on the selection and wish

[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary today

2013-12-09 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
are utilised in Telugu Wikipedia. We encourage you to leave any messages to the Telugu Community on this email thread or on Telugu Wikipedia Feedback pagehttps://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FBin Telugu or English. Sincerely Arjuna Rao Chavala Telugu Wikipedia Bureaucrat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Awards (Telugu) - Request for Nominations

2013-12-09 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
, Vishnuvardhan, CIS-A2K Program Director as members. We have also constituted an awards committee with myself as President, Arjuna Rao Chavala, WMIN Co-founder and its first President as Secretary and A. Rajasekhar, T. Sujatha, NWR 2011 award winners from Telugu Wikis and A. Radhakrishna, Former

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Brain Museum at Bangalore

2013-12-06 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Sowmyan, 2013/12/6 Sowmyan Tirumurti tsowm...@wikimedia.in There is a Brain Museum at Bangalore. Radhakrishna visted this place some time ago and shared the potential with Omshivaprakash and me. We had been intending to go there, but some thing or other delayed it. This week I ended up

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Awards (Telugu) - Request for Nominations

2013-12-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/12/3 Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in Great initiative guys! All the best for it Thanks Srikanth, If there are any ideas on how we can improve the award process, I will appreciate sharing the same. I also request the wikipedians from English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil

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

2013-12-02 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Netha, 2013/12/1 Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com Dear all, The Featured Wikimedian for the month of December is User: Redtigerxyzhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Redtigerxyzfrom English Wikipedia. His profile can be viewed on the main page of Wikimedia India chapter wiki here :

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone

2013-11-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
HI Ravi, 2013/11/24 Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com 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

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi

2013-11-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
/CommunicationAboutDraftHindiKeyboardsNov2013) for further information and share it in your circles and help the initiative. Sincerely Arjuna Rao Chavala 1908.1 Working Group Chair ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi

2013-11-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Sankarshan, 2013/11/12 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: IEEE 1908.1 WG is pleased to release two draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi and their Android apps for evaluation and feedback

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi

2013-11-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/11/12 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your feedback. We have provided one example (writing the word Hindi in Devanagari Lipi) in the details web page. As the layout is visual, we think

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA

2013-10-28 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/10/29 Nitika Tandon nit...@cis-india.org Dear All, Konkani Vishwakosh is now freely available to download on Goa University's website under Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA 3.0. [1] Congratulations to Goa University, CIS-A2K and all others whose efforts made this a reality. As far

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

2013-10-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Vishnu, 2013/10/25 Vishnu T visdav...@gmail.com The Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) Program invites applications from experienced Wikimedia community members for a short-term assignment as a 'Community Communications Consultant'. The duration of this

[Wikimediaindia-l] Use of Fair use messages from Wikipedia in a CD for distribution in India

2013-10-16 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
to hear from people with experience and expertise on these matters Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala Telugu Wikipedian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Use of Fair use messages from Wikipedia in a CD for distribution in India

2013-10-16 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, The link to the non free images on Telugu Wikipediahttps://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:All_non-free_mediaaction=editredlink=1, that I missed in my previous mail. Cheers Arjuna 2013/10/17 Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Hi, As some of you have noticed, several

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia user group in Pakistan

2013-10-06 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi 2013/10/5 Saqib Qayyum saqib.qay...@hotmail.com Dear Indian Wikimedians, Although Wikimedia chapter for Pakistan is still in the discussion phase, we've working on creating of an official Wikimedia User Group, since the numbers of our community members at the moment are not sufficient

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

2013-08-20 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, 2013/8/20 Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in Congratulations to Moksh and Jayantha, and kudos to Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Anirudh Bhati and Bala Jeyaraman for their priceless contribution. Arun, yes, we are planning for another meeting soon in Mumbai, where we shall be present while

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Programme Officer CIS-A2K (Announcement)

2013-08-16 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/8/16 Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com Dear All, I am happy to inform you about the selection of the new Programme Officer, who has joined the CIS-A2K Team on August 15, 2013. Please join me in welcoming Muzammiluddin Syed. Congratulations Muzammiluddin Syed Best wishes Arjuna

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

2013-08-15 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/8/15 Subject: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com, Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: masked Hi, We completed

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

2013-08-14 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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,

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IRC with WMIN Executive Committee Election Candidates

2013-07-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/7/27 Subject: IRC with WMIN Executive Committee Election Candidates To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi All, An IRC with Executive Committee Election Candidates is scheduled for *30th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] #IWikiWhen trends in Twitter

2013-07-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, 2013/7/26 Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in Dear Wikimedians, thanking the Wikimedia Foundation for deploying Wikipedia Zero in India in association with Aircel, I was surprised to see that - #IWikiWhen https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IWikiWhensrc=tren was trending in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] #IWikiWhen trends in Twitter

2013-07-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi 2013/7/26 Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2013/7/26 Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in Dear Wikimedians, thanking the Wikimedia Foundation for deploying Wikipedia Zero in India in association

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Draft slate of Candidates

2013-07-15 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/7/15 Subject: Draft slate of Candidates To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi All, We would like to thank all the participants in the nominations process. Election Committee

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki is up and open for WMIN elections.

2013-07-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/7/11 Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] Re: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi All, http://wiki.wikimedia.in is now up. As few election

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM-Summary and Log

2013-07-06 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/7/6 Subject: Re: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Hi all, here is the summary of the IRC Attendees: - Arjun, Tinu

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee-2013

2013-07-03 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Committee Arjuna Rao Chavala -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/7/2 Subject: Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee-2013 To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Date: 2 July 2013 Dear Member, Subject

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM

2013-07-03 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: 2013/7/3 Subject: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi All, The proposed IRC details are at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sabhash Wiki, a documentary on Wikipedia in Telugu news channel HMTV

2013-06-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/6/5 cbrao cbra...@gmail.com I could not hear audio in video. Check your system. There was no problem on my PC. Cheers Arjuna cbrao 2013/6/5 Rahmanuddin Shaik nani1o...@gmail.com Hi, After Telugu Wikipedia Mahotsavam, there is a small movement in Telugu media on coverage of

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

2013-04-30 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
{{Only to Wikimediaindia list}} Sudhanwa, 2013/5/1 Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com FYI Media coverage in Sakal newspaper- Mumbai, Pune edition. ~~~ 10th Anniversary Special - Marathi Wikipedia will be available in (free) DVD Format, Aimed to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Telugu Wikipedia Mahotsavam 2013 Celebrations

2013-04-20 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Thanks to Rahman for the update on the Event. I congratulate all the organisers, volunteers, Wikimedia Chapter, CIS-A2K and TOU,Central Univ for their efforts and help in making the event a success. Just one clarification to put my involvement in correct perspective about the agenda. I have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] report on consultation re: Indian Languages in Higher Education

2013-03-16 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/3/16 Tejaswini Niranjana t...@cscs.res.in Hope this will be of interest. Just published in the Economic and Political Weekly. Thanks Tejaswini for the paper. All the best for the inititaive. One key step that was missed out in the past digitization initiatives was making the meta data

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: Re: [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

2013-02-09 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Congratulations Vishnu and Tejaswini on your new roles. All the best for the A2K team in growing Wikimedia in India. Arjuna 2013/2/8 Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com Dear Pradeep, If I may come-in on this. *From: * Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.com; * To: * noopur noo...@cis-india.org;

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-24 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/1/23 Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com On Jan 23, 2013 11:58 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Rather than just the views, we need to look at the value felt by the viewers (may be by an annual survey) as a measure of the impact of Wikipedia's mission. --cut

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Sankarshan, 2013/1/22 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Please check out my blogpost on Indian Wikipedia languages status in 2012 and priorities http://blog.wikimedia.in/2013/01/22/analysis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, 2013/1/22 Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com Arjuna, Your approach to have an idea of a community's activity by combining some metrics is interesting. Also, to compare monthly averages instead of end of year performance is also good. Thanks. One clarification. I took the sum of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report

2013-01-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
2013/1/22 sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Both are key measures of activity for the outcome of Wikipedia, that is sharing the sum of human knowledge. If there are not many page views resulting from less

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikisym 2013 in Hong Kong, Call for papers open

2013-01-13 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
As per a personal communication from Waltraut Ritter, Organising Committee member, WikSym+OpenSym 2013 Call for papershttp://www.wikisym.org/2012/12/14/wikisym-2013-wikipedia-research-track-call-for-papers/ is now open, Due date: March 17,2013 The conference has a special track for community

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

2013-01-03 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Sudhanwa, Thanks for the update. I too thank Anirudh for his contributions and wish him well. I congratulate Bala on joining the EC and wish the all new EC(meaning non founder member EC) all the best in nurturing Chapter. Cheers Arjuna 2013/1/3 Sudhanwa Jogalekar

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

2012-11-06 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
to be included in WLM, I hope you can keep up the momentum. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Karthik, Thanks for the update. Thanks to you, Naveen and the jury for all the hardwork and perseverance. Can you update the (user names/ real names

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

2012-11-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Thanks Krutikaa for a comprehensive report. I am happy to hear about the large participation and nice outcomes. Congratulations to all organisers and thanks to all participants for making it a successful event. There was discussion some time back about formation of Women Special Interest Group

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

2012-11-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Karthik, Thanks for the update. Thanks to you, Naveen and the jury for all the hardwork and perseverance. Can you update the (user names/ real names and location of winners on the web site? I am sure that the winners must be eagerly waiting to receive the prizes and hope you will have some more

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

2012-11-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Karthik, Thanks for the update. Thanks to you, Naveen and the jury for all the hardwork and perseverance. Can you update the (user names/ real names and location of winners on the web site? I am sure that the winners must be eagerly waiting

[Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN Executive Committee for 2012-13 takes charge

2012-10-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
free knowledge with every one for building a Knowledge Society. Please join me in wishing the new team all success. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President,Wikimedia India Jan 2011 - Oct 2012 --- PS: if you are replying, please take a moment to select only required

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Annual Report 2011-12 released in 2nd AGM

2012-09-29 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:56 PM Subject: Wikimedia India Annual Report 2011-12 released in 2nd AGM To: wmin-members wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com From Wikimedia India blog. http://blog.wikimedia.in Chapter

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India report - Aug 2012

2012-09-18 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
forward to your continued support and active participation. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Arjuna Rao Chavala President ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] QA with the nominees

2012-09-07 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
better before finalising the votes. Regards Arjuna On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I have kicked off QA with the following question Natural working style? Can you share your couple of examples of on wiki or off wiki contributions

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hiring of Executive Manager for Wikimedia India

2012-09-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Hi Naveen May I suggest that some experience in collaborative working be included in the specs. It is not a 'natural' skill, especially not (in my experience) when working with digital media, which I notice is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Inputs for Draft Annual report 2011-12

2012-08-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Members and Community, We invite you to contribute content and help share the Chapter annual report for the first full

[Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteers for Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam

2012-08-01 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
places to join us. As of now, myself and Radhakrishna, Chair, Bangalore SIG have confirmed our plans. Let me know if any one is interested to join us by Aug 3, 2012. Thanks and regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC on EC elections for this year,

2012-08-01 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi All, The IRC log is available at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election_IRC_Jul2012 Thanks Arjuna On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: No. It's not mandatory. This is only to clarify questions there may be. Thank you. Best, Gautam

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program

2012-07-30 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
the best for the initiative. Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Communication on Chapter Accomplishments and EC Vacancies

2012-07-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
for the opportunity to be part of this great movement which I will continue to be associated. Best regards Arjuna Rao Chavala On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry, Here is a better readable version after fixing layout.. Arjuna Communication

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election Committee appointment for Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012

2012-07-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:47 PM Subject: Election Committee appointment for Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012 To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Dear Members, Greetings, I am glad to inform you

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

2012-06-23 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, In 2010, Wikimedia Foundation organised few sessons. I, Anirudh and few others helped manage the stall. Regards Arjuna On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: No, the last one was in 2010 in 2009 I attended as the sole Wikipedian - besides me,

[Wikimediaindia-l] Request for feedback on draft Rules for Elections and appointments to Chapter positions

2012-06-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
on wiki pagehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Election_%26_Appointment_Rules. Regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change

[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu Wiktionary launches WOTD

2012-05-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
more of interactions offline and online among the various Wiki language communities (technical/content) to strengthen our projects serving information needs of people. Regards Arjuna Rao Chavala On behalf of Telugu Wiktionarians. [1] http://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WCI 2011

2012-05-20 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
the Chapter bank account for Conference has begun a week back. The audit report will be shared after the audit is completed. Regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

2012-05-02 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi All, Delighted to hear this update. Congratulations to all who were involved with this effort. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks once again Ashwin, I have been considering to release the books officially, but unfortunately, PDF conversion is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-03-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report Apologies for the delayed email. Work ate me. TL;DR: 13 completed hacks, including 2 core mediawiki patches, 3 tawiki userscript updates and 2 new deployed tools.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India resolution on Chapters council

2012-03-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:23 PM Subject: Wikimedia India resolution on Chapters council To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi, Here is the update on resolution relating to Chapters council formation

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An easy way to improve the spelling and grammar in the Wikipedia in your language

2012-03-17 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
on. - Sent via mobile On Mar 18, 2012 5:10 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2012/3/18 Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com: Telugu spell checker (Self plug:contributed by me )is at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/telugu-spell-checker/ Arjuna

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Telugu article count crosses 50, 000

2012-03-14 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
రహ్మనుద్దీన్ Rahmanuddin, శుభవార్త తెలిపినందులకు ధన్యవాదాలు. ఈ మైలురాయి చేరుటలోనేనొక చిన్నపాత్రపోషించినందులకు నాకు సంతోషంగా వుంది. తోటి వికీపీడీయన్లు మరియు ఇతరుల కృషికి ,తోడ్పాటుకి అభివందనలు. Thanks for the update. I am happy to have played a small part towards this milestone. Congratulations to

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy for Communication students of ASCOM, Coimbatore - Blog post

2012-02-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Please check the blog post on Wiki Academy for students of Amrita School of Communication, Coimbatore http://blog.wikimedia.in/?p=141 Thanks to Govind Hari, a participant of the Wiki Academy for the blogpost. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'

2012-01-21 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 16:54, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: * Try using services like http://pediapress.com/ or tie up with a local publisher to print books regarding Kolkatta, West Bengal, Bangaladesh

[Wikimediaindia-l] CFF: Wiki Academy at Coimbatore for Journalism Communication Students on 28 Jan 2012

2012-01-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Bangalore and Chennai etc) will be borne by the College. I am planning to participate in the same and would like another 2 to 4 people to join me. Kindly let me know by tomorrow. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Call For Participation: IEEE P1908.1™ Working Group, Virtual keyboard Standard for Indian Languages

2012-01-11 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
for attending the first meeting will be sent to all the registered people prior to the meeting. For any further clarifications, please contact *Arjuna Rao Chavala, IEEE P1908.1 Working Group Chair, *at* arjunar...@ieee.org. * IEEE Standards Associationhttp://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv

[Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Call-December Update

2012-01-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Dear All Here is a summary of the Wikimedia India Chapter and WMF India programs coordination call. Date of call: Wednesday Dec 21 (Voice Conference) Attendees: Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov Hisham Mundol

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

2012-01-02 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:15 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi , In case you haven't seen this : Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports *Wikipedia Page Views Per Country* - Overview http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOverview.htm

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

2011-12-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: What I found one of the key factor behind active communities particularly Tamil and Malayalam, is the support of Government for the initiative. This could be a priority area for other Wikipedias as well. According to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

2011-12-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
pleased and excited to announce that Subhashish Panigrahi has agreed to join as Consultant, Community Program Support. --cut-- Congratulations Subhashish! Happy to see the strengthening of India programs team with this addition. Best wishes Arjuna Rao Chavala

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-19 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
are there to pick up from? use gthumb to add some meta data. we can parse it and use them as categories. Yes, Looks like a good idea. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-18 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
of Upload. After few days, a bot will flag all those images with the uncategorised warning. Can you explore enhancing the tool to support categorisation along with Upload? I will try your tool in couple of weeks and provide more feedback. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala

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

2011-12-17 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
on the next steps. Best wishes Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
thoughts and/or proposals. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
://mentor.ieee.org/stds-india/bp/Indic_Virtual_Keyboards I seek your support and participation in this initiative. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala WG Chair, P1908.1 Virtual keyboard standard for Indic languages Twitter id: @arjunaraoc http://twitter.com/#%21/arjunaraoc

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
will be needed, which again is being offered at reduced rates for Indians. The official Work Group will be kick off in January. I request interested people to subscribe to the mailing list of the initiativehttp://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=indic-input-stdsamp;A=1 . Cheers Arjuna Rao

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1st Wiki Academy, Jaya Engineering College, Bangalore

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
below could be relevant http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_Student_Organizations Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Friends, Indic languages have an opportunity to gain their rightful place in the computing and communications world on par

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
in January. I request interested people to subscribe to the mailing list of the initiativehttp://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=indic-input-stdsA=1 . Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
sorry the minutes did not reflect the same, though it was discussed and agreed. Hope the above helps. I request Hisham to share his view as well. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India On 06/12/2011, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All As you might be aware, we've

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your explanation for the explanation Arjuna, but I still have a question. What feedback are you looking for? If the proposed public communication were to contain specific role for the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views even by single digits and having more visibility for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
of view of the conference, pre and post the introduction of sharing buttons, it may give idea the usefulness of the idea. Probably this could apply to Tamil contest. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu e-zine special issue on Wiki Conference 2011 released

2011-12-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Update on City/language SIG

2011-12-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Update on City/language SIG To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Dear Members, I am glad to inform you about further updates to City/Language SIGs. The following

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?

2011-12-02 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
with indic while supporting all other functionality. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

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