[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikisignpost article on impact of Google Translation Project (2009-2011) on Telugu Wikipedia
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 as it may be of interest to Hindi/Kannada/Tamil/Bengali wikipedians as the scope of the project included these as well. Cheers Arjuna Rao C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter
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 Wikimedia India Chapter. He was involved in various projects of the movement that dealt with the State Government of Tamilnadu and multinational firms like Google. His experiences working for the movement have been featured in media including The New York Times and BBC. He has served as the General Council member of the International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil. He is also actively involved in promoting Free and Open Source projects and Free Culture movements in Tamil. Ravishankar completed his graduation from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore and Technical University of Munich, Germany and later worked as a researcher for the Leiden University in The Netherlands.He has been working as an independent Web development consultant. The Interview committee consisting of Sudhanwa Jogalekar (Past president) , Navin Francis ( Past Secretory), Moksh Juneja (President) and myself were honored to be part of this efficient, effective, and enlightening process. Ravishankar joined Wikimedia India on 20th September 2014 as Program Director. He will be based in Bangalore. His primary roles are supporting community members in organizing and executing the various chapter programs, strategic planning for the chapter, mentoring interns and devise success measurement metrics for community projects. Please join me in officially welcoming Ravishankar Ayyakkannu to Wikimedia India Chapter! Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups wmin-members group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ___ 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] WMIN shutdown ?
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. Thanks Arjuna On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: I am also surprised to see no reply. Arjuna, do you have any further information? On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Abhijeet Safai abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com wrote: 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 ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ 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 ___ 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 -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?
Hi, Response inline.. 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. Thanks Sudhanwa for bringing up this topic on the list. As a co-founder of the chapter, I also share your concerns. I had a brief phone conversation with Moksh Juneja, President, WMIN couple of days ago. I shared my concerns and requested him to take necessary steps to complete the regulatory requirements like audit, FCRA report submission, membership renewals, elections at the earliest. I also alerted him about the deadline for letter of intent for FDC participation for the next year http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-May/072308.html(date revised to Jun 8, 2014), if the WMIN is to continue with FDC process. I offered my help to the extent possible. Moksh responded positively. As all the Executive Committee members have signed the code of conduct of the chapter http://wiki.wikimedia.in/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, Wikimedia India Chapter ___ 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] Vikaspedia: reaching the unreached in India
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 - is there an opportunity for collaboration? I had known from its early days when it was called *India development gateway* and also interacted with them for potential collaboration. Indian language Wikipedias are certainly better off in terms of page views as can be seen from my analysis given below done in 2012. In March 2010, unique visitor count was 2630. It increased to 4460 by Mar 2011. For all 8 languages put together average daily page views are 13350. For Telugu wikipedia alone, daily page views are 8 as on July 2012. Please note the time periods are based on the data available and are not exactly comparable, but they indicate rough status. Cheers Arjuna 1. CDAC annual report 2010-11, page 47 http://www.cdac.in/html/pdf/FINAL%20English%20Annual%20Report%202010-11.pdf 2. Telugu Wikipedia page views as observed on July 2, 2012 for the period http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm ___ 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] Fwd: Re: Gujarati Wikisource - completes 50 books
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 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:ProofreadPage_extension has not been used for this. I had the experience of setting up and using the same on Telugu Wikisource. I think it will be useful and improve the productivity of the team and would like to suggest the team to try it. Cheers Arjuna On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Please see the below email from Sushant Savla. Congratulations to Sushant and other Gujarati Wikimedians for their efforts in achieving this milestone!! Best, Vishnu Original Message Subject: Re: Gujarati Wikisource - completes 50 books Date: 27 Mar 2014 15:01:24 - From: sushant savla sushant_sa...@rediffmail.com sushant_sa...@rediffmail.com To: vis...@cis-india.org vis...@cis-india.org Dear Vishnu, this is in continuation to our telecon regarding i am not able to get my name registered in Wikimedia India list hence writing this email to you. Gujarati Wikisource has achieved yet another milestone on its second birthday (29.03.2014) completed uploading full 50 books which has come in public domain. The collection of these 50 books includes well known Gujarati literary creations in the form of Autobiography, Novels, Plays, Collection of Poems, Essays, Moral Stories etc. This includes works of prominent writers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Zaverchand Meghani, Kavi Nhanalal, Surasinhji Gohil, Educationist Gijubhai Badheka, Kavi Dalapatram, Ramanlal Nilkanth etc. This feat was achieved in 2 years time. As OCR is not available, volunteers of Gujarati wiki Community have typed this books. The community proceeds in a planned manner. A book is selected and its announcement is made at common platform on source. Volunteer interested joins the project. Chapters are distributed among the particants and proof reading is done. Once completed, another book is undertaken. Kindly inform this on Indian Community List Regards Sushant ___ 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 ___ 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] Request for funding Decennial celebrations of Telugu Wikipedia
Hi All, Thank you, Pranayraj for posting the grant request email. I request the Chapter Executive Committee, Members of the Chapter and Community to ask any questions they may have on wiki talk page or on the email threads as per their preference. I also would like to invite fellow 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, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Pranayraj Vangari pranayrajvang...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians First let me introduce myself. I am Pranayraj, Telugu Wikimedian for the past 1 year and I am currently acting as the Secretary of the Telugu Wiki 10th Anniversary Organizing Committee. http://bit.ly/1fTOrFj As many of you may know Telugu Wikipedia completed 10 Years on December 10, 2013. To celebrate this historic milestone, the Telugu Wiki Community has planned to meet over for two days during Feb 15 and 16 in Vijayawada. Please see our budget document here http://bit.ly/1jrmlzp. We have placed a request of total budget of Rs.6,62,100/- to WMIN chapterhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Tewiki10/Telugu_Wiki_Conference_2014, WMFhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Rahmanuddin_-_Telugu_Wikimedians/Telugu_Wikipedia_Ten_years_Celebrationsand CIShttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests. A portion of this budget, Rs.2,00,000/- has been sought from the Chapter. We request the Chapter to consider our budget request and approve it at the earliest as the dates for the event are nearing. We also request the Chapter to provide us the fund in advance so that we could accommodate prizes(awards) and pre-conference expenses. We look forward welcoming you all at Vijayawada. Thank you, Pranayraj Secretary, Telugu Wiki 10th Anniversary ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Thank you
-- 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 of the Chapter. I express my sincere thanks for your contributions to Chapter activities for over 1 year and three months, juggling various types of roles, some of which you might have wished for more appropriate staff or support. I am sure this has been of great help to the geographically distributed Executive committee with diverse set of experience, membership and the community at large in strengthening and growing the Wikimedia movement in India. The award by the FDC on WMIN's Annual grant request with significant cut, would have disappointed many in the India Wikimedia movement. As some of you may know, though I was a member of FDC, I was not party to the decision as I had to recuse myself because of my membership and involvement with the Chapter. Though, it might have hurt you personally, I urge you not to feel that way, as many members and community under the leadership of Executive Committee contributed to the process and so many factors are usually weighed by the FDC in making the decision which has been upheld by the WMF Board. WMIN has faced so many challenges in its more than 5 year history (including the time before its formation) from so many fronts. Thanks to the support of community, well-wishers, Wikimedia foundation, WMINmembers and fellow chapter stakeholders, it has moved forward on the path of growth and had several achievements at national and regional levels. I am sure that even the present challenge would be met squarely by the EC with the active support and involvement of all. At this juncture, I would urge the EC and you to consider all the options with involvement of members and community as appropriate so that an action can be finalized which will serve the best interests of the movement. Sincerely Arjuna Rao Chavala On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Sowmyan Tirumurti tsowm...@wikimedia.inwrote: Dear Members, I have decided to relinquish my role as the Executive Manager of the Chapter, and had communicated this to the EC some time back. I guess they did not quite like it and hence have in turn not let it out. Considering that I stand by the decision, and mails requesting grants and expectations of responses on these have been coming in from members of the community, I feel this must be made public. The Foundation has offered a grant of about Rs 33 lakhs for 2014 under FDC. The Chapter had made a request for an amount about 4 times of this. The grant request apparently did not inspire FDC and they have held that the Chapter may not have the capability to administer any larger amount. At 80% growth over the previous year, they seem to feel the Chapter has already been given a massive growth path and should be happy with this. Given the low grant amounts we received in the past, this 'massive' 80% growth does not mean much. It does not pay for salary for 2 people (as planned), an office, and the mandatory quarterly face to face EC meetings and associated travel. Regulatory norms put a cap at 40% of the grant value on these overhead expenses. At a grant value of 33 lakhs, the total over heads can only be 40% of 33 lakhs, amounting to about Rs 13 lakhs. This level means, we go back to one more year of passive funds administration without much Chapter driven events. An accountant / volunteer helping in disbursements of funds against requests generated organically would be the model we have to adopt. We will still need an office to comply with regulatory requirements. EC travel may be some what uncertain when new elections bring people in farther parts of the country. By standing down I would be helping the Chapter in a small way to manage the expenses within the available grant. I feel guilty of having been a burden on the chapter for a year. We did not know our grant limited future will be so limited and my time was spent imagining grander possibilities for a brighter future and sharing them internally. The earlier EC dreamed big, and initiated my engagement though as a part timer. I was to become a full timer from April 2013. This was postponed by mutual consent with the current EC, as we expected the FDC grant to provide for it. The FDC provides for this in principle, but not yet by the value. So it is time to stop this wasteful engagement. I also feel guilty of not having lived up to the expectations of the members. The practical rejection of the new grant request (what else can we call it when what is approved is nearly 25% of what was sought) is also a factor for which I must take the blame. If the proposals did not appear to be impressive, were considered to have wasteful elements, was considered
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Wikipedians featured in Editing Wikipedia outreach booklet
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. Congratulations Ganesh and Noopur. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] GLAM activity at the National Museum, New Delhi
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 had set the stage for a few exciting projects to follow. Some links from the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/NM Articles created (excluding user talk pages) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Collection_in_National_Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyan_chauper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved_wood_vahanas_in_National_Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_carved_tusk_depicting_Buddha_life_stories --cut-- Nice to hear about this update. I am glad to see all the contibutions under this initiative. I hope this will trigger more such initiatives across India in various wikis. Congratulations to all the participants and thanks to National Museum authorities for their support. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Wikipedians featured in Editing Wikipedia outreach booklet
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 ___ 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] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi
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-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/ ___ 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] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi
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/ ___ 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] (Announcement) Selection of Community Communications Consultant at CIS-A2K
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 him success with the assignment. My hearty Congratulations and best wishes to Rahimanuddin Shaik. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu Wikipedia Tenth Anniversary today
Hi Friends, On behalf of Telugu Wikipedia and other Telugu Wikimedia projects, I greet you on the ocassion of tenth anniversary of Telugu Wikipedia today. Many thanks to each one of you for your contributions and support to Wiki eco-system. I am sure that some of your contributions 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 ___ 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] Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Awards (Telugu) - Request for Nominations
Hi All, The proposal due date has been extended to 16 Dec 2013, in order to give more time for proposals and also to strengthen the nominations. You can check the current status of nominations and initiate new proposals at this pagehttps://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Komarraju_LakshmanaRao_Wikimedia_Award_Proposals . Thanks Arjuna 2013/12/3 Ravi Vyzasatya vyzasa...@gmail.com Dear fellow Wikimedians, I will start by introducing myself to the community. I am Ravi Vyzasatya based in Maryland. I have contributed to Telugu Wikipedia since 2005 and to a lesser extent in Telugu Wiktionary and Wikisource. I did serve as admin in all these projects. Although my primary interest is in writing well researched articles in the area of South Indian history, I do help the community by running bot scripts and taking care of miscellaneous administrative tasks. Telugu wikipedia will be 10 years old in another week from now. On this auspicious occasion Telugu Wikimedia Community is organizing celebrations under the leadership of an organizing committee headed by Vishwanath B.K, Pranayraj as Secretary, Kasyap as Treasurer along with Rahimanuddin, WMIN SIG lead Telugu, 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 WMIN SIG lead for Bangalore as members. The award is named after Komarraju Lakshmana Rao[1], pioneer Telugu encyclopedian who undertook the first modern encyclopedic effort in Telugu, perhaps the first among Indian languages (c.1912-13). It is also quite fitting tribute to Lakshmana Rao to honor his memory in the centennial anniversary of such pioneering effort. The award carries a citation and cash prize of Rs 10,000/. Organizing committee and awards committee members are ineligible for the awards to avoid any perceived or real conflict of interest. We are inviting nominations [2] for awards on Telugu Wikimedia projects. Nominations are due by 9th Dec 2013 24:00 midnight (UTC). Members can self -nominate or be nominated by others, in consideration for these awards. Nomination process has been developed by Arjuna building upon the NWR 2011 nomination process[3] pioneered by another WMIN Cofounder and the then EC Member Arunram . We express our sincere appreciation for the same. We think that this initiative with nominal cash prize by Telugu community may be the first of its kind and will complement the existing recognition mechanisms and help encourage budding Wikimedians in their initial years of contribution. We invite all Indian Wikimedians to participate in the award nomination process as you may be familiar with our Telugu Wikimedians through their efforts in English, Kannada, Tamil language Wikimedia projects. For the benefit of wider Wikimedia community, we have provided for relevant remarks on the nomination pages in English and also invite nominations or support for the existing nominations in English, if you choose to do so. We solicit your wishes on this happy occasion and will be sharing the updates about the celebrations, awards and other related Telugu wiki activities as things roll out. Sincerely, Ravi Vyzasatya References 1.English wiki page on Komarraju Lakshmana Rao, the first Encylopaedist among Indian languages from India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komarraju_Venkata_Lakshmana_Rao 2. Award details page in Telugu https://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%95%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%A3%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82 3. Nominations page in Telugu https://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%A6%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%89%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0_%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95/%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81 ___ 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] Brain Museum at Bangalore
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 visiting them. Dr Shankar is a very passionate man. He wants to educate the world. He loves to explain things to kids, and medical students. But he is vary of publishing photographs and meta data for reasons he articulates with conviction. Plagiarism and thesis writing on the basis of such data is some thing he is keen to prevent. There is still a lot to be written about. --cut-- One catch may be this sort of articles may require wikipedians who are also medicos. Do we have people with medical background, available for a hackathon on this subject. How do we go about this? Kindly give us your suggestions. Glad to see another good initiative. You can conduct couple of wiki academies for NIMHANS Students and find out whether some of them will come forward to help. There are also few wikipedians who are doctors (Dr Rajassekhar from Telugu community) or studying medicine(Netha for example from ML community). So doing wiki academies in medical and related colleges could be useful. Radhakrishna and myself made one contact with RV Dental college, Bangalore couple of years back, but it could not happen due to other developments. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] [Wikimedia-in-en] Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikimedia Awards (Telugu) - Request for Nominations
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 wikipedians to add their comments if any to the award application forms. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki
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 : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page A list of profiles of all 12 featured Wikimedians for the year 2013 can be viewed here : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2013 Excellent work!. Best wishes Arjuna ___ 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] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
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 Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total contributors. * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and the first time we crossed 100. * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest enrollment in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time. * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten years. * We went from 1 to 2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking population now. * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest in ten years. Congratulations to Tamil community on these achievments. Best wishes Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi
Hello, IEEE 1908.1 WG is pleased to release two draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi and their Android apps for evaluation and feedback. The feedback is required by 11 Dec 2013. Please check the detailed press note ( https://mentor.ieee.org/1908.1/bp/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 mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi
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. The feedback is required by 11 Dec 2013. Please check the detailed press note ( https://mentor.ieee.org/1908.1/bp/CommunicationAboutDraftHindiKeyboardsNov2013 ) for further information and share it in your circles and help the initiative. It would help the user/tester if you could provide/add more detail about the keystroke combinations. https://github.com/ankur-india/ankur-india/blob/master/resources/probhat-keycombos.txt is an example. Thanks for your feedback. We have provided one example (writing the word Hindi in Devanagari Lipi) in the details web pagehttps://mentor.ieee.org/1908.1/bp/Draft_virtual_keyboard_proposals_for_Hindi. As the layout is visual, we think it may be sufficient. We will consider your input and other feedback that we receive in the next few days and add additional examples or FAQ in due course. Sincerely Arjuna ___ 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] Fwd: IEEE 1908.1™ WG releases draft virtual keyboard layouts for Hindi
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 it may be sufficient. We will consider your input and other feedback that we receive in the next few days and add additional examples or FAQ in due course. Excellent. At its current stage the kind of feedback you are looking for is discoverability/learning as well as ease of usage when compared with existing layouts. Hindi is a fairly trivial word to use as an example and, there are could be pangrams which your users can aim to type. Agreed. May be we should do the complete sequence for the test phrase that is used in the survey. An additional request - since it is good to spread the news about this over social media, if you could, in future announcements, provide a message you want shared, it would help keep things consistent. For example, https://twitter.com/sankarshan/status/400201328313794560 may not actually be what you'd like shared. Sending the social media message separately. I will keep your suggestion in mind for the next communication. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] Konkani Vishwakosh Under CC-BY-SA
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 as I remember, this is the second such release after Malayalam encyclopaedia was released few years back. Converting to Unicode will require huge effort, but will really make this accessible. Best wishes Arjuna ___ 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] Short-term assignment at CIS-A2K
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 assignment is for 3 months. The consultant will work with the CIS-A2K team and report to the Program Director CIS-A2K. *Profile:* An ideal candidate should: a) have been a Wikimedian for more than a year. b) have good understanding of and contribution on Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons projects. c) have links with at least 5 Indian language Wikimedia community members --cut-- I have not seen this being announced on the language wikis or email lists. There may be people who may have most skills but may not be active on English mailing list and you may be missing them. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Use of Fair use messages from Wikipedia in a CD for distribution in India
Hi, As some of you have noticed, several Indian languages have celebrated/are celebrating tenth anniversary. Telugu language community is contemplating release of Telugu wikipedia http://te.wikipedia.org content on a CD with appropriate modifications for School children use. The CD is proposed to be distributed to all schools in Andhra Pradesh. Out of 9053 (approximate) images, 2071 (30%) are non free images(mostly book cover, cinema posters, logos etc) . We are looking for advice on the following A) Whether we can include all the non free content on CD? B) Whether WMF/WMIN will approve the use of Wikipedia Logo on the cover? C) Any other precaution/disclaimers that need to be included on CD to prevent any legal dispute in future. As Malayalam community has produced a CD in the past and there have been attempts to produce an English School Wikipedia CD for India, I would like 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://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Use of Fair use messages from Wikipedia in a CD for distribution in India
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 Indian languages have celebrated/are celebrating tenth anniversary. Telugu language community is contemplating release of Telugu wikipedia http://te.wikipedia.org content on a CD with appropriate modifications for School children use. The CD is proposed to be distributed to all schools in Andhra Pradesh. Out of 9053 (approximate) images, 2071 (30%) are non free images(mostly book cover, cinema posters, logos etc) . We are looking for advice on the following A) Whether we can include all the non free content on CD? B) Whether WMF/WMIN will approve the use of Wikipedia Logo on the cover? C) Any other precaution/disclaimers that need to be included on CD to prevent any legal dispute in future. As Malayalam community has produced a CD in the past and there have been attempts to produce an English School Wikipedia CD for India, I would like 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://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia user group in Pakistan
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 for the creation of a chapter. Thanks for the update. All the best for the initiative. Some ideas and suggestions from Indian chapter members will be welcomed and highly appreciated. Chapter Wiki http://wiki.wikimedia.in has lot of information about our Chapter, its history etc. If you setup an IRC and inform, I am sure many Wikipedians would join and share their experience and/or provide clarifications. Cheers Arjuna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc ___ 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] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results
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 others will be present in call, so as to define each others role as the earliest. The first meeting of the new EC (along with outgoing EC) is crucial to be done face to face for the following reasons a) Reflection on the year gone by and capturing lessons learnt b) Team building workshop to learn the approaches and strengths, expectations of one another b) Election of office bearers and other roles of the EC c) Strategy discussion and outline of priority programs and champions till the next year d) Finalisation of budget for the current financial year e) Strategy, programs, budget for the next financial year (required for FDC funding proposal due by 1 Oct 2013). The newly elected EC members input will be critical as they will be continuing for the whole of next financial year. Additional information for Election is available in the Elections and Appointment Rules for WIkimedia Chapter Official positions http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdf Expenses for meeting should not be a constraint in conducting face to face meeting. Face to Face meeting of joint EC was done in the last year in which the outgoing EC participated. Hope the Executive Committee will consider the above and finalise their meeting plans. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] New Programme Officer CIS-A2K (Announcement)
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 mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results
-- 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 the election process for Wikimedia India Chapter Executive Committee (EC) Elections for year 2013 in today's Annual General Body Meeting. We are happy to announce the results of the Election. Total eligible Voters: 66 (Excluding 3 members of the Election Committee, who cant' vote as per the Election rules) Votes polled: 27 (26 by post and 1 in person), (40.9%) Valid votes: 26 Invalid vote:1 Candidate- Votes polled Jayanta Nath - 17 Moksh Juneja - 17 Nikhil Kawale - 3 Santosh Shingare - 6 Yohann Thomas - 7 Hence, Jayanta Nath and Moksh Juneja are declared as elected to EC for the two vacant positions for term 2013-2015. We congratulate Jayanta and Moksh. We thank EC, all the candidates and members for active participation in the Election process. We thank the outgoing Executive Committee led by Sudhanwa for all their contributions. We wish the new EC all the best for growing the movement and the chapter in future. Sincerely, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Tinu Cherian, Radhakrishna A Election Committee for EC Elections-2013 Wikimedia India Chapter ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Re: NCERT portal goes CC-BY-SA
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 Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IRC with WMIN Executive Committee Election Candidates
-- 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 July 2013, Tuesday from 09:00PM to 10:00PM IST* on #wikimedia-inhttp://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-inchannel. All the candidates have confirmed their availability. Election Committee thanks them for their prompt confirmations and support. Kindly mark the session on your calendars. Responses to Questions have been initiated by some of the candidates. I request all the candidates to update their responses by the time of IRC, so that participants can have a more focused discussion on topics of interest. Looking forward to your participation. For Election Committee 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] #IWikiWhen trends in Twitter
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 Twitter India and Mumbai trend-lists. That is because Aircel India is running a contest asking their fans for the reason they wiki, and I can see that it has actually worked. They are giving away HTC One X Phone.[1] Would request everyone to take this up and tweet about Wikipedia (you can also participate :D)!! People will be looking at the trending hashtags! :D 1. https://twitter.com/Aircel/status/360361785104166912 Nice promotion from Aircel. It was surprise for me also. I wish the interaction between WMF and Chapter can be improved so that more chapter members and community can support India initiatives better. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] #IWikiWhen trends in Twitter
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 with Aircel, I was surprised to see that - #IWikiWhen https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IWikiWhensrc=tren was trending in Twitter India and Mumbai trend-lists. That is because Aircel India is running a contest asking their fans for the reason they wiki, and I can see that it has actually worked. They are giving away HTC One X Phone.[1] Would request everyone to take this up and tweet about Wikipedia (you can also participate :D)!! People will be looking at the trending hashtags! :D 1. https://twitter.com/Aircel/status/360361785104166912 Nice promotion from Aircel. It was surprise for me also. I wish the interaction between WMF and Chapter can be improved so that more chapter members and community can support India initiatives better. Hi Arunja, We're glad to see this promotion from Airtel as well. They ran a few marketing ideas by us before the launch but we weren't aware of this one in advance; we found out the same time as everyone else. We don't have the available staff to work with Airtel on these promotions so we rely on them, as we do with other partners, to run many of them at their own discretion. I also believe it would be great if WMF could coordinate with the chapters more but we'll need additional resources to do so. It's definitely worth talking about... Thanks for your response. BTW, I posted a blog in Englishhttp://blog.wikimedia.in/2013/07/26/free-access-to-wikipedia-on-mobiles/and Telugu http://teluginux.blogspot.in/2013/07/blog-post.html about free Wikipedia through Aircel and Airtel with info for Indian language users. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Draft slate of Candidates
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 deliberated the nominations and clarified the information provided on the nomination forms with the Chapter. The nomination of Manish is rejected as invalid, as the candidate is not a member on 15th May 2013. His form also was found to be incomplete. It found the following nominations to be in order. - Jayanta Nathhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee-2013/Jayanta_Nath - Moksh Junejahttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee-2013/Moksh_Juneja - Nikhil Kawalehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee-2013/Nikhil_Kawale - Santosh Shingarehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee-2013/Santosh_Shingare - Yohann Thomashttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee-2013/Yohann Last date for withdrawal of candidature is 19 Jul 2013, 2359 hrsIST. Any candidate withdrawing candidature may express the same on the wiki pagehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee_Elections-2013#Draft_slate_of_candidates and sign before due date. For Election Committee 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki is up and open for WMIN elections.
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 announcement pages were lost during the wiki infrastructure transition. Kindly participate in the election process by visiting the Nominations pagehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee_Elections-2013 The election announcement http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Election_Notice-2013and IRC summaryhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013can be visited for information. 6th July IRC log is lost. If any of the participants kept a copy, kindly upload the same. Sincerely For Election Committee Arjuna Rao Chavala 2013/7/8 Pranav Curumsey curum...@gmail.com Server is currently being moved so there may be an error on and off for a day or two. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Nikhil Kawale nikhil.kaw...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Arjuna, The link you posted regarding the election 2013 IRC seems to be redirecting to somewhere else i.e. masterssystems.com and same is the case with the link of election details link. Regards, Nikhil Kawale On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 10:32:55 UTC+5:30, arjunaraoc wrote: Hi All, The proposed IRC details are at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/** Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013 Election committee and EC looks forward to interacting with you Sincerely For Elections Committee-2013 Arjuna Rao Chavala -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups wmin-members group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Kind Regards, Pranav Curumsey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups wmin-members group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM-Summary and Log
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, RK (Election Committee) - Karthik,Srikanth, Viswam (Executive Committee) - Sowmyan (Executive Manager) - Jayanta and Yohannvt (Members) Election process and EC roles clarifications were provided. Actions: - EC to confirm the eligibility of members for participation in Election (as proposer/seconder/candidate) well in advance of the Nomination due date i.e 14 July -- Karthik - Members are encouraged not to wait for the dead line to submit nominations.--Members For the full log, please see the IRC page.http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013#Log Please reach out to Election Committee for any clarifications and actively participate in the Elections Cheers For Election Committee Arjuna Rao Chavala 2013/7/3 Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Hi All, The proposed IRC details are at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013 Election committee and EC looks forward to interacting with you Sincerely For Elections Committee-2013 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee-2013
Hi All, Election notice to members of Wikimedia India Executive Committee is enclosed FYI. Here are the links on the WMIN wiki Yesterday's notice with updated links to the nomination page is now available at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Election_Notice-2013 Sincerely For Election 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: Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2013 The Election Committee appointed by Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee(EC) for notifying and conducting the Election to Wikimedia Chapter EC election, hereby announces the election to the Wikimedia Chapter EC for the two year term. A detailed ‘Rules Regulations for the Election’ is available on wiki ( http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdf) which includes the Nomination Form for Candidature (at Page 7). As of now Members who are on the membership roll as on 15 May 2013 are eligible to participate in the Election and contest the Election (as per by-laws,based on the date of election and AGM scheduled for 15 Aug 2013). An electoral roll will be made available by the EC atleast three weeks before the AGM as per the MOA. This will includes updates if any to the members list which will be used for finalizing the slate of candidates as well as for mailing ballots. As per the communication from EC, two vacancies are to be filled. Please note the following details: 1. Date of election: 15 Aug 2013. 2. Timing for voting in person: As per AGM Agenda which will be communicated by Chapter later. 3. Place of election and for sending postal communication: Wikimedia Chapter, No.194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Dommaluru 2nd stage, Bangalore 560071. India. 4. Last date and time of receiving nominations:14 July 2013, 11:59PM IST Chapter Public Wiki will be used as the electronic medium for submitting and processing nominations. Each nomination is to be placed on a sub page and linked from the Elections page. Members proposing and seconding the candidature as well as the candidate have to sign using their user-ids on wiki. They also need to identify their membership number on their User pages for validation. Nomination pages will be locked to prevent editing on the day following the due date.] The public wiki is available in read only mode due to maintenance currently. Members will be communicated once the wiki is available for editing. Nominations can be filed by post also. Such nominations should be sent to as to reach the registered office well within deadline. 5. Scrutiny and Publishing Draft slate of candidates: 16 July 2013 5. Last date for withdrawal of nominations: 19 July 2013 11:59PM 6. Publishing final slate of candidates: 20 July 2013 The Executive Committee and the Election Committee will host an IRC on 6 July 2013,Saturday between 9PM and 10PM on IRC channel #wikimedia-in. All members are requested to make use of this for any clarifications with Election Committee and Executive Committee The Election Committee comprises of the following members: 1. Arjuna Rao Chavala 2. Tinu Cherian Abraham 3. Radhakrishna Arvapally You can contact us or use the membership list for any clarifications or discussions. Thanks in advance for your cooperation to conduct the election in free and fair manner. Yours truly, For and on behalf of Election Committee 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM
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-2013_IRC_Jul2013 Election committee and EC looks forward to interacting with you Sincerely For Elections Committee-2013 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] Sabhash Wiki, a documentary on Wikipedia in Telugu news channel HMTV
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 Wikipedia. HMTV has telecast this story on Wikipedia, basically a small documentary on Wikipedia in Telugu. The title is Sabhash Wiki. Which means Well Done! Wikipedia! Will try to put a translation, if someone needs so. Link at youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C79fc6mCjLY -- With thanks regards *Rahimanuddin Shaik* నాని [image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/ reachout ఒక విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి, ఎక్కడయితే ప్రతి మనిషి ఒక సంపూర్ణ విజ్ఞానభాండారాన్ని అందరితో పంచుకోగలడో, ఆ విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి. *అటువంటి విశ్వాన్ని నెలకొల్పడమే మా సంకల్పం.* తెలుగు వికీపీడియా : http://te.wikipedia.org A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com *తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com* ___ 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 -- This mail might have been sent to you in Telugu language. If you are unable to see Telugu, Go to VIEW--- select ENCODING---click UNICODE (UTF-8). For writing in Telugu, use http://lekhini.org/index.html Follow me on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cbrao http://twitter.com/cbraoin My blogs in Telugu at http://paradarsi.wordpress.com/ http://deeptidhaara.blogspot.com/ ___ 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 ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: 10th Anniversary Marathi Wikipedia will be available in (free) DVD Format, Aimed to reach 10, 000 schools.
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Sudhanwa,
2013/5/1 Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com
FYI
Media coverage in Sakal newspaper- Mumbai, Pune edition.
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10th Anniversary Special - Marathi Wikipedia will be available in
(free) DVD Format, Aimed to reach 10,000 schools.
विकिपीडिया आता डीव्हीडीच्या रूपात
- मनीषा फाळके - सकाळ वृत्तसेवा
मंगळवार, 30 एप्रिल 2013
http://online3.esakal.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsId=4965158952679418726SectionId=11SectionName=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%88NewsDate=20130430NewsTitle=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4
Excellent! Congratulations to everyone involved with this! Can you share
the background story of how this is accomplished preferably in English as
it will be a good learning for fellow native language wikipedians?
Cheers
Arjuna
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Telugu Wikipedia Mahotsavam 2013 Celebrations
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 extended help and involved myself in making this event useful to participants from different perspectives, The agenda was discussed in advance on the Telugu Wiki event talk pagehttp://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%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82/%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%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%AE%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%82_2013#.E0.B0.B5.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.95.E0.B1.80_.E0.B0.B8.E0.B0.AD.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.AF.E0.B1.81.E0.B0.B2_.E0.B0.B8.E0.B0.AE.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B5.E0.B1.87.E0.B0.B6.E0.B0.82_.E0.B0.AA.E0.B1.8D.E0.B0.B0.E0.B0.A3.E0.B0.BE.E0.B0.B3.E0.B0.BF.E0.B0.95and finalised with feedback from all. The agenda was also dynamically updated based on the actual unfolding of the event. Looks like Rahman missed some of these while making the report. Cheers Arjuna 2013/4/20 Rahmanuddin Shaik rahimanud...@wikimedia.in Hi, Telugu Wikipedia Community, in association with Wikimedia Foundation India Chapter, Telugu SIG, CIS-A2K and Theatre outreach Unit of UoH celebrated this Ugadi, the Telugu New Year festivity as a Wikpedia celebration. Celebration of completing 9 years, more than 50k articles and increasing users both in terms of readers and contributors. Once the program was planned, we had hardly a month's time left. So, whoever from the Telugu wikipedia community at Hyderabad, was invited and meetups were held at Golden threshold, Abids on every sunday till the event date. There were a lot of discussions that happened in these meetups, we could clarify each others' doubts and even take up small wikipedia learning sessions at these meets. A budget was prepared and roles were assigned. We started preparing invitations, and other logistics were being calculated. Almost for all of us, this was the first time to be on board for organising such an event. So, there were obvious worries and apprehensions about smooth conduct of event. Here, I should say that without Vishnu's efforts, we could not have organised this event to such a level. Right from convincing Rama Rao garu of TOU, UoH for venue to the post event tasks, he was always with us for support and help. We called on other Telugu wikipedians living in other cities to join the pre-event meetups to handle pre-event and event tasks. T. Sujatha garu from Chennai made herself available for the meet on 31st March. Her presence made people more confident. When the event day came, Arjuna garu arranged a wikiacademy at Centre for Good Governance(CGG) which me, Arjuna , Vishnu and Pavithran organised. This wikiacademy happened on 9th April. On the event day, that is on 10th, morning, a media meet was organised. It was intended for media people to know about wikipedia. It was attended by media heads from 4 different media houses. A panel discussion headed by Bhandaru Srinivas garu was organised. Key points on improving telugu wikipedia from a perspective of a media person was revealed in this discussion. Post lunch, we visited HMTV media office to know about the internal working of a television media news channel and press. Here we had the opportunity to get to know about how various programs are recorded and telecast. By the team, we returned to the venue, it was late in night. Then, we had a discussion where the next day's program and future resolutions for Telugu Wikipedia were discussed. Next day morning was the festival of Ugadi. The main day of the event. It started off with introductions, this pre-lunch forenoon was entirely meant for Wikipedians to interact with each other. But, Arjuna garu had something else in his mind. He arranged a talk from a person from indg.in, C-DAc and a live interaction over Google with Ravi Vyjasatya, one of the senior most Wikipedians. Post lunch, all the participants were divided into 2 groups, one of them were those who were entirely new to wikipedia, the others were the fello telugu wikipedians. For the newbies, a wiki academy was organised. And simultaneously, a discussion session where most problems and hurdles of wikipedians were discussed. Some of these discussions still are on at the forum at tewiki. Sowmyan was busy interacting with wikipedians and taking up memberships. We asked him to address the gathering after the discussions. By 5 we were done with most of our planned activities and were ready for the best part of any program, the public meeting. M Aditya Prasad garu, from AIR headed the
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] report on consultation re: Indian Languages in Higher Education
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 about the book (title, author) available in the language of the book. Accomplishing that step alone could help the lndian language users in accessing the already digitized content. The next step is transcripting the Indian language content from the digitized scans. In Telugu, I initiated these steps using WIkisource project. A 1910 book on History of Andhras (Telugu Title: Andhurla-Charitramu Part 1) by Chilukuri Veerabhadra rao was transcribedhttp://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A7%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2_%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81_-_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A5%E0%B0%AE_%E0%B0%AD%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81. The transcription of meta datahttp://te.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D/%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D.%E0%B0%86%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8B%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%81_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81of the Telugu titles available in archive.org is initiated. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] Fw: Re: [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13
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; * Subject: * Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13 * Sent: * Thu, Feb 7, 2013 8:05:53 AM Hi, Thank you for the update, Noopur. Could you or someone elaborate on the hiring of Tejaswini Niranjana, please? I assume you are asking about the rational behind hiring Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana as a Consultant Adviser to the A2K team. As many of you on the list may not know, Tejaswini was one of the potential applicants for the position the Programme Director, Access to Knowledge. She had even made it to the short-list of candidates who were interviewed. In fact her interview happened the same day as mine at CIS. However, the interview panel felt that she is too senior and over qualified for the position, but wanted to keep her associated with the Wiki-movement in India. Then the interview panel suggested that we look at taking her as an Consultant Adviser. CIS (i.e. Sunil) went back to the WMF about this recommendation by the interview panel and the WMF accepted it, as uniformly it was felt that she would add tremendous value to the Wiki-movement in India. I personally think that Tejaswini brings with her wealth of experience and professional expertise of working in the sector of Indian Languages in Higher Education. In addition to this she has multiple research institutional contacts and networks, which will potentially add value to the Indian Language Wikipedias and contribute to the expansion of editors and content. I was told that she has already played an instrumental role in facilitating two outreach workshops to researchers and college students in Mumbai and Ahmadnagar, to which some of our Wikipedians friends have gone. I think we should all concur with the strategic decision taken by the interview panel, which I am quite sure will benefit us and the movement. You can find her brief profile herehttp://cis-india.org/about/people/distinguished-fellows . Please join me in welcoming Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana to the Wiki-movement in India. I have taken the liberty to coy her on this mail. Best regards, Vishnu ___ 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 ___ 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] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report
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-- That is a very challenging thought, Arjuna. Online surveys are potentially quite weak, as evidenced by the Facebook voting process (for policy changes, not the Facebook 'like' feature, whose purpose itself is full of questions). A possibility may be a continuous rating system, with radio buttons on each page, visible to logged in users (?), or actionable only by logged in users, rather than an optionable survey on some other page. I see difficulties with this as well, mind you, but throw it out as a suggestion. On the plus side, adding such user-involving features may be a way to bring in more 'mature' community involvement in knowledge creation and dissemination. I am often struck by the manner in which some relatively half-baked 'improvement' gets to be quite popular while worthwhile technology lies unused. 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings', said the poet, but I hope we are part of the solution, not content to remain the problem. Article feedback toolhttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/20/article-feedback-new-research-and-next-steps/currently in beta could be the impact metric that may be suitable for this purpose. Somewhere in the future, I see some kind of 'sharing' as a possibility, whereby individuals who have common interests can actively and dynamically connect through wikipedia pages. That might throw up an interesting metric as well. I understand that part of the plans for Wikipedia is to make it more social. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report
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-of-indian-language-wikipedias-for-2012/ You write As each one of us intuitively understand that number of page views and number of edits are correlated, I derived a metric called ‘Activity’ as their product - would it be possible for you to explain why arriving at a product of these two factors is a measure of activity ? 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 number of readers, there will be less enthusiasm on the part of Editors to contribute. If there are more page views, more people will be interested to become Editors. Given the nature of these metrics and different ranges, each one will not be a reliable measure by itself as it is the interaction in the Wikipedia eco-system that will be a more appropriate measure. I also heard during some of wiki interactions that when Chinese language wikipedia was banned in China, the number of editors fell a lot. Note that I have considered overall database edits in the metric, which also includes the edits that could be made through bots. Bots can be used to improve the quality of Wikipedia by correcting for spelling mistakes apart from less useful interwiki links. By one estimate, bots are said to be contributing to 10% to 30% of edits in top ranked language wikipedias.[1] Cheers Arjuna [1] THE LIVES OF BOTS-R. STUART GEIGER in Critical Point of View-A wikipedia reader, Page 78http://p2pfoundation.net/Critical_Wikipedia_Reader Simple statistics indicate the growing influence of algorithmic actors on the editorial process:in terms of the raw number of edits to the English-language version of Wikipedia, automated bots are 17 of the top 20 most prolific editors 2 and collectively make about 16% of all edits to the encyclopedia project. 3 On other major language versions of the project, the percentage of edits made by bots ranges from around 10% (Japanese) to 30% (French). -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ 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 ___ 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] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report
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 metrics for the entire year rather than average. *Increase in database size, number of most active contributors (making more than 100 edits a month) and page views can be real indicators of growth and activity*. Is there any way to find database size? We don't have that and many other useful stats after May 2010. Check http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm for example. Yes and No, as any metric can be compromised. If database size is a parameter, too many stub articles may adversely affect the quality. Number of most active contributors is too small a number in most Indian language Wikipedias. There has been debate about the % of people who contribute to Wikipedia in English. While Jimmy is reported to have said that it is small fraction which contributes the bulk, Aron Swartz did an analysis that the bulk of contribution is made by large number of wikipedians based on the bytes added metric. In wikipedia, I think the former is more true, though it could be different if there are people who are contributing stubs rather than reasonable sized articles. You can get an account on Toolserver and obtain the database size information. Also, any inference based on page views should normalize it based on the population of native speaking people to have a better perspective of the community's performance compared to its potential / size. My analysis is more focussed on relative change in each language than absolute numbers. The graphs included the information for all the languages to get a general feel of the languages together. It is not the population alone which can be a significant factor, as there are several other factors like the love for language and geographic distribution of its speakers. Population numbers could be considered, but then there is lot of variation depending on the sources. An exhaustive study would be useful, if we can determine a independent measure (may be by annual survey) as an impact of Wikipedia in accomplishing its mission, then the various metrics available like edits, page views and their combinations can be tried using statistical algorithms to arrive at key parameters or parameter combinations. I think it would be good for WMF to work on such a thing, as otherwise our focus could be lost by looking at simple metrics like active editor/page views. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] Fwd: Status of Indian language wikipedias in 2012 and priorities, Telugu WP report
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 number of readers, there will be less enthusiasm on the part of Editors to contribute. If there are more page views, more people will be interested to become Editors. Given the nature of these metrics and different ranges, each one will not be a reliable measure by itself as it is the interaction in the Wikipedia eco-system that will be a more appropriate measure. I also heard during some of wiki interactions that when Chinese language wikipedia was banned in China, the number of editors fell a lot. When I realized that Activity is a product of the entities I understood that the two entities are commutative. However, there was a particular aspect which puzzled me - the number of views/viewers is a function of the richness of the content. In other words, while that value can certainly be influenced by the language community, it cannot be controlled. Against that, the number of edits is a value that is under the sphere of control of a language community. And, within that, edits can perhaps be classified (in context of whether the data available facilitates that deep dive) as : human and bots. Within the human-edited subset, there are ways to visualize the trend of data edits. Kiran did a bit of this way back - http://jace.zaiki.in/tag/mwclient TL;DR : the measure of activity could perhaps be accurately reflected when specific data points around editing are considered rather than using a relationship with views. 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. In the absence of such a measure, we are looking at Page views as an outcome. As page views itself may depend upon edits and several other factors and influence other factors, I have considered it as an input itself, as it is an important contributor to the activity. There can be several ways to compute the quality of the Wikipedia. But that is a different topic. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikisym 2013 in Hong Kong, Call for papers open
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 contributions as well which can be made use of by researchers who are interested in sharing their findings but would like to publish subsequently in other journals. As the event is scheduled together with wikimania, it is great opportunity for people to attend both. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter Anniversary
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 sudhanwa@gmail.com Dear Wikipedians, The Wikimedia India Chapter was registered with the Karnataka Registrar of societies on 3 January 2011. We celebrate our second anniversary today :) Initially, the Chapter Executive Committee consisted of seven founder members. Over time, six of these founder members departed from the board after each of them made significant and invaluable contributions. The Executive Committee now bids goodbye to the seventh founder member, Anirudh Singh Bhati. The Executive Committee expresses its deep gratitude towards Anirudh for his wonderful contributions that have helped build the chapter. He becomes the first person to complete an entire term on the Executive Committee of Wikimedia India. We wish him well in all his future ambitions and hope he remains connected to the movement in some form. The Executive Committee has unanimously resolved to fill the vacancy created by Anirudh’s departure by co-opting Bala Jeyaraman. Bala is a distinguished Wikipedian who has been active on English and Tamil Wikipedia’s, being an administrator on the latter and was one of the organisers of the recently held Tamil Wiki Photo Contest. He will hold office until the next general body meeting which would need to approve his appointment. Another important step being taken by the chapter is our first fundraising appeal, which will be announced shortly. A lot of people may ask why the chapter needs a fundraiser when it has access to WMF funding. The answer is, we are still ineligible for FDC (we hope to be eligible for the second round of funding in 2013) and would need to rely on grants, spending of which is restricted by the WMF. Since formation, the chapter has relied heavily on the Executive Committee to take on the burden of running the show. In an ideal world, the EC would like to take on the role of guiding the chapter rather than actually be responsible for operations after two years of incorporation, which should be best done by professionals rather than volunteers in their spare time. The chapter has hired an employee (Sowmyan Trimurti, our Executive Manager) as well as plans to lease its own office premises in Bangalore. For this, we will soon be sharing a plan and will request the community for suggestions on the plan. We will also need the help of those volunteers who are in a position to support us. It could be a small individual donation or in the form of a corporate donation from an institution. A small token of support from you could go a long way in helping us achieving our goals of furthering the movement in India. Apart from this, we encourage the community at large to engage with the chapter and request our support wherever necessary without hesitation for community activities. The chapter has been formed for the benefit of the community and we will always try our best to live up to the community’s expectations. Warm regards, -Sudhanwa Jogalekar President, WMIN !~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.wikimedia.in -- ___ 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] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India
Hi Theo, Response in line. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: This was a great initiative by such a young group of volunteers - Karthik, Naveen and everyone involved, a big Thank you and Congratulations, for getting this done. India desperately needed 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 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 updates on the same. I'm not sure which web site you are referring to above - commons? chapter wiki? Karthik's email mentions the link to each winning picture on commons, and if you look closely below each picture is a section for Author. I'm not sure how familiar you are with WLM. But if you look on the commons page for the winners[1], a large majority of them are redlinks with next to no information about real names and locations of photographers. I believe the competition has more to do with the pictures themselves than the photographers. Some of the winners created their account for the sole purpose of uploading the pics, some chose their names, some didn't. It is their right if they choose to not declare their real name and location. Putting this information on commons without their permission, can be tantamount to WP:OUTING[2] and against the Wikimedia privacy policy. I very much am involved with WLM and also know the policies. You seem to have missed some mails on this topic from me. BTW, this is just not a virtual world event as there is lot of prize money at stake. I am not advocating that Karthik share the real names without contacting the winners. If my mail was not clear in that aspect, I am sorry. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Disappointed that there are no user pages or information on background of contributors of winning entries. Let's try and contain the disappointment, shall we? ;) This was a big initiative taken by such a young group of volunteers. They deserve to lauded for their achievement. The information about the individual photographer is rarely a priority during these initiatives. Sorry to disagree. As mentioned, this is just not a pure virtual world event. Once we know the winning photographs, there is a curiosity to know the author/photographers of the award winning entries. Also after spending quite a lot of effort and money, there are more expectations on leveraging this for the movement. May be some of these people will become passionate Wikimedians and start initiatives to improve media about India. Hope the winners will take action to update their pages soon so that the community knows bit about them and their passion for Photography/monuments and their approach towards the contest and also few words about their winning entry. If they choose to mention those details, sure. They don't have to do anything, like the majority of winners from other countries. Agreed. Again there is an opportunity for India to be different while respecting the policies. That is the focus of my message. Hope that helps in bringing clarity to my message. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report
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 (SIG) of India Chapter. I encourage the participants to discuss the same and follow up with the Chapter as required. Cheers Arjuna On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Krutikaa Jawanjal krutika...@gmail.comwrote: A Day Spent well. The Wikipedia Women Workshop which took place on November, 4th 2012 in Vidyalankar Institute of Technology (VIT), Wadala was indeed a success. The people who volunteered in organizing this workshop were Bishakha Datta, Moksh Juneja, Karthik Nadar, Pranav Curumsey, Pradeep Mohandas, Anshuman Fotedar, Aditi Juneja, Harriet Vidyasagar, Nikita Belavate, Netra Parikh, Noopur Raval, Netha Hussain. All discussions and planning done while organizing this workshop for women paid off. In all, 70+ women participants attended the workshop. The workshop started with a short introduction after which, wasting no time, the women participants moved on to learning how to edit Wikipedia which was though by the present on ground volunteers. The participants were were divided in groups and every group had to create a new article which wasn't already available on Wikipedia. In the process, women interacted with the volunteers, asked question regarding Wikipedia. Every group at least had added introduction to the new article. Having done with the basic editing, a general presentation on Wikipedia was given by some of the volunteers. This was followed by question and answers regarding the same. By this time, it was already 1.30pm, so the lunch was announced. After having lunch, the participants got back to their seats. Pretty much everybody stayed back post lunch. Moksh continued with teaching how to edit Wikipedia. This time it wasn't it in groups though. References and Notability were the main topics that were covered in this session. Anshuman and Karthik then proceeded with teaching photo uploads on Wikipedia. Quiz was conducted towards the end and Wikipedia-Tshirts were given as prizes for giving right answers. Karthik, then also showcased the winning images of Wiki Loves Momunents 2012 India. The long day came to an end with an overwhelming response and a call for organizing many such activities. The feedback received was positive. The participants enjoyed the workshop. We are thankful to everybody who made this event a great one. Thanks to all the volunteers. Special thanks to Moksh and Karthik who went out of the way to get everything arranged before hand at the venue, to Netha and Noopur for making it to the workshop and for working hand in hand with the Mumbai Community, to Srikanth Ramakrishnan who constantly stayed in touch for online help. Special thanks to whole Vidyalankar team. Vishwas Deshpande, Founder of Vidyalankar, who gave us an opportunity to to do the Mumbai's first Wiki Workshop for Women at Vidyalankar. Milind Tadvalkar (Director) and Seema Shah (Principal), Jayprakash Kurmi and Vivek and the complete IT Team at VIT, Mahesh from Canteen for an awesome Pav Bhaji for Lunch. Another thanks to Netra Parikh, for giving us enough place at her office, Pinstorm, for all out pre-meetings. Thanks to all. Regards, Krutikaa Jawanjal ___ 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 ___ 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] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India
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 updates on the same. Cheers Arjuna On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi all, post contest, we had a jury round for the contest Wiki Loves Monuments, for which the India received more that 16,500 files from various states of various monuments. 2,340 participated for the contest, for which India ranked number one in participants. Thanks to all the Jury members and Wikipedians, who have helped with us for Jury; on behalf of me and Naveen Francis (core team members), and also on behalf of the whole of India Community. Reviewing thousands of file has been a tough job. The Jury members included: - *Arun Ganesh* - *Gauri Gill* - *Kiran Ravikumar* - *Ryan Lobo* - *Sreejith K* *Special thanks to Arnav Sonara*, for filtering thousands of images for Jury round 1. Winners were declared as per rating, with quality, creativity and importance to Wikipedia. *The winners are as follows:* First :http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rear_side_of_Tajmahal.jpg Second :http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_the_caves.jpg Third : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_9_Stupas.jpg Fourth : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etmatuddaula_N-UP-A12.jpg Fifth : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gateway_of_India_at_night.jpg Sixth - Tenth http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedse_Caves.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhutanatha_group_of_temple_on_the_east_margin_of_the_tank.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sis_Mahal.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Safdarjung,_New_Delhi.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mehrangarh_Fort-1.jpg Very special thanks to: - *Achal Prabhala* - *Konarak Ratnakar* - *Kothari Harsh* - *Sreejith K* - *Yuvi Panda* * * Detailed report will be soon made penned. P.S: I'm sorry if I have missed anyone. -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. (Ph: +91-9773608862) ___ 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 ___ 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] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India
Hi, I found the link for the winners at commonshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners#India . Congratulations Narenderhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Narender9action=editredlink=1 , Naga Praveena Sharma Phttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nagapraveen2action=editredlink=1, Mufaddal Abdul Hussainhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mufaddal.hussainaction=editredlink=1 , Asitjain http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asitjain , Vijay Sharmahttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Vjsharma89action=editredlink=1 , Soumitra Inamdarhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Soumitra_Inamdaraction=editredlink=1 , Rahulhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Rahulpurushotaction=editredlink=1 , Dola Dashttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Dola.das85action=editredlink=1, Pranav Singhhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Pranav7action=editredlink=1 and Monica Goelhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Goelmonicaaction=editredlink=1 Disappointed that there are no user pages or information on background of contributors of winning entries. Hope the winners will take action to update their pages soon so that the community knows bit about them and their passion for Photography/monuments and their approach towards the contest and also few words about their winning entry. Cheers Arjuna 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 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 updates on the same. Cheers Arjuna On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi all, post contest, we had a jury round for the contest Wiki Loves Monuments, for which the India received more that 16,500 files from various states of various monuments. 2,340 participated for the contest, for which India ranked number one in participants. Thanks to all the Jury members and Wikipedians, who have helped with us for Jury; on behalf of me and Naveen Francis (core team members), and also on behalf of the whole of India Community. Reviewing thousands of file has been a tough job. The Jury members included: - *Arun Ganesh* - *Gauri Gill* - *Kiran Ravikumar* - *Ryan Lobo* - *Sreejith K* *Special thanks to Arnav Sonara*, for filtering thousands of images for Jury round 1. Winners were declared as per rating, with quality, creativity and importance to Wikipedia. *The winners are as follows:* First :http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rear_side_of_Tajmahal.jpg Second :http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_the_caves.jpg Third : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_9_Stupas.jpg Fourth : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etmatuddaula_N-UP-A12.jpg Fifth : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gateway_of_India_at_night.jpg Sixth - Tenth http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedse_Caves.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bhutanatha_group_of_temple_on_the_east_margin_of_the_tank.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sis_Mahal.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Safdarjung,_New_Delhi.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mehrangarh_Fort-1.jpg Very special thanks to: - *Achal Prabhala* - *Konarak Ratnakar* - *Kothari Harsh* - *Sreejith K* - *Yuvi Panda* * * Detailed report will be soon made penned. P.S: I'm sorry if I have missed anyone. -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. (Ph: +91-9773608862) ___ 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 ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN Executive Committee for 2012-13 takes charge
members of Wikimedia Chapter (India). He currently serves as the *Treasurer*. - Wikimedia: Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington - Facebook: http://en-gb.facebook.com/bhati - LinkedIN: http://in.linkedin.com/in/anirudhbhati - Email: anirudh[image: at ]wikimedia.in Nikita Belavate [image: Nikita Belavate] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Nikita.jpg Nikita Belavate is a pre-final year student of 5 year M-tech Integrated degree in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. She is based in Mumbai. She attended 'Wiki-Conference India' held in Nov-2011, which gave her the exposure to Wikipedia Community at large. She was inspired by the event and became active English Wikipedian in December 2011. She helped conduct meetups, photo-walks and outreach sessions in Mumbai. Her interests include encouraging and improving women participation in Wikipedia and other projects. She is elected to the Executive committee in Sep 2012 and is the first female Executive Committee Member to serve on board of 'Wikimedia India'. She currently serves as *Member* - Wikimedia User Handle: Nikita - Email: nikita.sb[at]wikimedia[dot]in - Facebook: nikitabelavate http://en-gb.facebook.com/nikitabelavate Pranav [image: Pranav] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Pranav.jpg Pranav is a Consultant in the field of Marketing Management based in Mumbai and currently works with a Social Media firm.. He has been associated with the Wikimedia Movement since 2006 as an editor and image contributor. He holds a B.Com degree from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. Pranav served as the Chairman of the Organising Committee for WikiConference India 2011 (WCI) organised jointly by Wikimedia Mumbai Community and Wikimedia India, with active involvment of 11 teams consisting of over 50 volunteers. He was granted a Fellowship from the Wikimedia Foundation for this task. Apart from WCI, Pranav has been one of the few Wikipedians instrumental in hosting of several community Meetups, Photowalks, Workshops and Academies in Mumbai. He is the first person to sign up as a member of Wikimedia Chapter using electronic funds transfer of membership fees. In September 2012, Pranav was elected to the Executive Committee of Wikimedia chapter and currently serves as *Member*. In addition to this he devotes time to other charitable/philanthropic activities as well,serving as a Member of the Board of Trustees of four Mumbai based Public Charitable Trusts which operate in Health, Education and other functional areas. Twitter: @Curumsey Email: pranav [at] wikimedia [dot] in Srikanth Ramakrishnan [image: Srikanth Ramakrishnan] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:SrikanthR.jpg Srikanth Ramakrishnan is a 20-year old student based out of Coimbatore, Chennai and Bangalore. He has been a contributor to the English Wikipedia since 2005 and has been a regular at Bangalore meetups since 2009. He has also held various outreach sessions across Tamil Nadu. On Wikipedia, his primary interests include editing transport, Indian economy, JAVA programming area articles. He is elected to Wikimedia India Executive Committee in Sep 2012 and currently serves as a *Member*. - Wikimedia: User:Rsrikanth05, en-wiki User pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rsrikanth05 - Email: srik.ramk[image: at ]wikimedia.in Viswa Prabha [image: Viswa Prabha] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Viswa.jpg Viswanathan Prabhakaran is an engineer, project manager and technology consultant by profession. After acquiring his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Government Engineering college, Thrissur in 1986, he initiated his career in computer industry. Keeping pace with the rapid evolution of technology, he has aligned his career path with industrial automation, communications, laboratory science etc. finally culminating into advanced biomedical engineering. He has travelled extensively both within and outside India and has lived and worked with a vast mixture of cultures and communities. He is elected to Wikimedia India EC in Sep 2012 and currently serves as a *Member* At present, he is living in his home town in Kerala, occasionally travelling, spending most of his time voluntarily for social causes and the Wikipedia movement. - E-Mail: viswaprabha [at] wikimedia.in - Wikipedia+: User: ViswaPrabha We are confident that under the new EC's leadership Wikimedia Movement and Chapter in India will grow to greater heights in the year to come. We request you all to extend the support and actively engage with Wikimedia India to achieve the vision of sharing 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 to addresses, as it has been sent to multiple lists
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Annual Report 2011-12 released in 2nd AGM
-- 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 held its second Annual General body Meeting on 23 Sep 2012. Arjuna Rao Chavala, President welcomed the members to the meeting. Naveen PF, Secretary presented a brief account of Chapter activities during the year 2011-2012. He highlighted the launch of Membership, large number of Wiki Academies across India, Wiki Conference India 2011 and Wikimedia India portal launch. On behalf of Anirudh Singh Bhati, Treasurer who could not be present in the meeting, Arjuna presented the report of Auditor. Report of activities and auditor’s report were approved by the general body.Annual report 2011-12http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMIN-Annual-Report2011-2012TwoUp.pdfcovering both the activities and financials was released. Read more.http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/09/29/wikimedia-india-annual-report-2011-12-released-in-2nd-agm/ --- Regards Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India report - Aug 2012
Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India ! Organisational Updates *Elections* Election preparations progressing well. 9 Candidates competing for 5 vacancies *Membership:* Membership as of 31 July, 2012 is 121. *Donations:* Amount of donations processed during the month Rs 1000/- *Board Meetings:* Board had one in person meeting in August *WikiConference 2011* Audit is completed.Report will be published along with Chapter Audit report after AGM on 23 Sep 2012 *Legal services Consultant* Mr. Apar Gupta is appointed as the legal services consultant for the Chapter effective 15 Aug 2012 for a period of one year. Apar is presently a partner at the law firm of Advani and Co.. Having a background in litigation he specializes in legal issues involving technology and intellectual property. His services include legal advisory and consultation as well as representing the Wikimedia Chapter in courts. Community Special Interest Groups *Events:* - The fifth elephant Wikimedia India partnered with the organisers of The Fifth Elephant Conference held at at NIMHANS convention center on 27th 28th July 2012. Read the blogpost at http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/08/29/wikimedia-india-the-fifth-elephant/ - Wiki Academy @ Dravidian University, 6 Aug 2012 Conducting Wiki Academy @ Dravidian university on 6 Aug 2012, is a special experience as majority of the audience was from the teaching staff. It is also the first ever multi lingual Wiki Academy conducted by chapter. As Dravidian university is focused on the major Dravidian languages, English, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam scholars attended the Wiki Academy. Read more at the blog http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/08/29/wiki-academy-dravidian-university/ *Upcoming Events* A round-up of Wikimedia events, academies and initiatives around the nation are updated here http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events. Media Coverage Media Coverage on Wikimedia India and Wikipedia is updated herehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_News Grants Funded WikiSangamotsav's remaining request for funding T-shirt expense was paid. We look 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 preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] QA with the nominees
Thanks to Abhijith Jayanthi for his question (second on the page) (reproduced below) Member Engagement Plan? I would like to understand your plans about member engagement. Considering it is an volunteer driven movement - how do you envisage/plan to build on the engagement opportunities for existing members and encourage fresh/new participation. Abhijith Jayanthihttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Abhijithsince19867 Sep 2012 Thanks to Pranav for kicking off the responses. I am glad that the process has started. It is upto all of us to make the best use of this opportunity to know the candidates 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 or talk about your natural working style and how you dealt with conflicts which are a crucial element of a volunteer board? --Arjunaraochttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Arjunaraoc15:30, 5 September 2012 (IST) Request responses from Candidates at the earliest. Also request all members and community to add their questions at the earliest (the link is in the enclosed email) and take part in these discussions. Regards Arjuna On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:57 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi, In order to know the candidates' views better, we have arranged for a QA on the wiki. Please add your questions latest by September 7 at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Nominations_for_the_Executive_Committee/Q%26A_with_candidates. Candidates shall respond by the 10th. Cheers, Sundar On behalf of the election committee -- ___ 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] Hiring of Executive Manager for Wikimedia India
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 one of the needs, and is not a skill directly rewarded in Old World organisations. No matter how excellent the report(s) produced, this community in particular wants to be involved. Thanks Vickram for your suggestion. We will certainly use it as a parameter for evaluation. BTW, the due date is extended to 15 Sep 2012. Regards Arjuna On Aug 28, 2012 7:09 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear Wikimedians, Greetings ! I am glad to share with you about hiring Executive Manager for Wikimedia India. The job description is enclosed. ( http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Job_Description_for_Executive_Manager) I request you to share these details in your network and help in staffing the position. Thanks, Naveen Francis Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter ** Job Description for Executive Manager The candidate will be the first staff member of the organisation and will have the exciting opportunity of growing the organisation to maximise its impact. The staff size is expected to grow 5 people over 2-3 years. The successful candidate will initially report to President of the Wikimedia India or a designated Executive Committee(EC) member. Most interactions will be with the EC and extended leadership team of the Chapter, Members, Community and partner organizations. Hence the candidate needs to be flexible about working hours. This position is based in Bangalore, India. Salary will be commensurate with Qualification. More details of work expected from the Candidate are given below. 1. Help develop short term and long term plans for the growth of Wikimedia project readers and Editors 2. Support Wikimedia India events 3. Present about Chapter, Wikimedia Foundation and conduct basic computer and Wiki literacy trainings. 4. Hire additional staff,interns as per plan 5. Develop Fund raising plan and execute with a goal of raising atleast 25% of budget locally in the first 2 years. 6. Prepare drafts of regular communication for Members, Community, WMF, Press and communication after approval by leadership team 7. Maintenance of books of Accounts, membership and Donor database:Preparation maintenance of Vouchers, issue of Receipts, making payments, preparation and issue of checks and making cash payments, TDS etc., 8. Preparation of Quarterly Financial statements. 9. Preparation of Annual Accounts,coordination with Consultants and Auditor 10. Filing of Income Tax returns and matters related to it. 11. Filing of Annual return with audited Accounts with the Registrar of Societies, Bangalore. 12. Liason with Consultants and Government Departments with regard to Section 12A Registration, FCRA, Online membership/donation/voting for Society etc. Candidate The following education, experience and skills are required: Education Masters degree in Commerce/Social Sciences/Science engineering streams Experience Recently retired professionals with at least latest three years of experience at Senior leadership level will be given preference. For other candidates, 5-10 years over all experience with at least 3 years in leadership role is required. Skills 1. Excellent written and oral communication skills 2. Ability to work with minimal supervision 3. Experience of atleast three years with Office productivity software for documentation, presentation, data analysis, financial management and conferencing How to Apply - If you wish to apply please send a *CV with* *a one page essay(600-800 words) on Strategies for maximising the impact of Wikimedia India and the role for WMIN Staff* to care...@wikimedia.in by Sep 8, 2012 - Only candidates shortlisted will be called for Interview at Bangalore during Sep 15-Sep 23 and the selected candidate is expected to take up the role from Oct 1, 2012. - Outstation candidates will have to make their own arrangements for the interviews at Bangalore. ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Inputs for Draft Annual report 2011-12
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 year of operation at this page. What we will use as a source for writing the report? Sorry, I could not understand your question. The inputs from members and community can help shape the Annual report (regret the typo with regard to 'shape' in my earlier email), http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Annual_Report_2011-12-Draft All are invited to edit the above page or use the talk pages for discussion. Regards Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteers for Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam
Hi, We have a Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam, a special university setup in 1997 with focus on the four Dravidian languages, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam. About 80 research scholars and faculty are expected to attend the Event. The Details for the event and a custom brochure is at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Dravidian_University,Kuppam We plan to leave early morning by car (takes around 2:30hours by Road) and return by around 8 PM. We are looking for few Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam wikipedians based in Bangalore or nearby 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 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] IRC on EC elections for this year,
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 http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html On 30 July 2012 16:16, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Gautam, is it mandatory to attend this IRC? Several chapter members I know, want to stand for elections, but will be unable to attend this IRC. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Sign this petition to introduce Volvo buses in Coimbatore city: https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Sunil Abraham su...@mahiti.org wrote: Dear Wikipedians, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Barry Newstead (WMF) bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hisham’s departure coincides with another change in the India Program. We are pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved a grant to the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore to expand their Access to Knowledge programme to support the achievement of the Wikimedia mission in India. Thanks Barry for the update. Congratulations to Sunil and CIS. Wishing CIS and WMF all 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
Hi Ashwin, Achal, Gautam, Pranav, Ravi, Sundar,HPN, Yogesh and any others whom I may have missed inadvertently and all other members and Community Thanks very much for your response to the communication. I appreciate your words of appreciation regarding Chapter accomplishments and the contribution of EC members. Whatever was achieved is a team effort not just that of EC, but the extended leadership team of the Chapter and the support received from members, Donors, WMF. On behalf of Chapter EC, I would like to thank everyone for the same. I would like to address some of the questions raised in response briefly in my individual capacity as EC member with regard to my decision to step down from the EC. When I started editing Telugu Wikipedia in 2007, I did not even think in my dream about my future involvement with the movement. It is just my love for improving the computing in my mother tongue that drove me to Wikipedia, the mailing lists and subsequently to a chance meeting with Jimmy and others including Achal in Dec 2008. Having had prior experience of serving in IEEE in different roles, I felt very much the need for a national chapter and thought of volunteering for the initial team. Though I was not keen for an EC role, it is just the situations that developed one after another that pushed me into more active role. I tried to do justice to my role during the founding of Chapter and subsequently. Thanks to the support that was extended by one and all, I am satisfied about what was achieved. Personally, it has been a great learning experience for me in Wikimedia, which I consider to be unique in the world (remember the quest for Heritage tag!) on several fronts whether it is technology, planning and execution, communication, government and other stake holder interfaces and organisational matters Coming to the question of my decision to step down at this time, I fully believe that this is the right thing to do as the Chapter's boot strapping is complete in my view and is ready for next phase of growth. In any membership based Societies, AGM and Elections that coincide with it are the major event at which leadership transition takes place. It allows for the new leadership to take responsibility for the society and work towards growing the organisation for the next year. As you all know the AGM is scheduled for Sep 23, 2012 and a new EC will take charge in 2-4 weeks from that date, which is mid Oct. As the two year term as per Byelaws ends on Jan 2, there will be very little that I can contribute by continuing to be on the EC for couple of months. We have put in place several of the operational policies and rhythms for chapter. I along with rest of the EC will be offering our support in inducting the new EC. l will be happy to be of help, if the revised EC requires any help from my side subsequently to the best of my ability and any constraints. Some of you may remember that there were questions about EC stepping down at the last year's Elections. While some of you may want EC members to continue, others may want to see a change. It is only natural that each EC member has to decide for himself when to step down subject to the larger Byelaws and his/her own constraints and commitments towards the Wikimedia cause and others. Let me remind that even the term of 2 years that was put in Byelaws is a compromise between one year and three years, the other choices thrown up during the Byelaw drafting discussions. What Byelaws says is all theory and from the past 1 year 7 months of experience, we know a bit about what works and what does not in Wikimedia. May be the future EC will change the Byelaws to make it even better. Change for improvement is what keeps any organism/organisation ticking. I am fully confident that necessary leadership will emerge and after another year from now, we will be celebrating many more accomplishments that we all can be proud of. I am not sure whether I answered all your questions. There is a plan for IRC on next Monday, which I will be joining the same and will be happy to answer questions from members and community. Once again, thanks every one 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 on Chapter Accomplishments and EC vacancies Dear Members Wikimedia India Community, Greetings from EC. As we are getting started for this year's AGM and Elections, here is a summary of the Chapter accomplishments from the time of last AGM and also update on the EC vacancies. Accomplishments since last AGM Statutory - Last AGM was conducted on 24 Sep 2011. All statutory reports were filed with Registrar of Societies and Income Tax Department. - Chapter applied for FCRA prior
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election Committee appointment for Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012
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 that Election ruleshttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdffor Wikimedia Chapter have been approved by EC. As per this, EC has constituted an Election Committee consisting of Mr Gautam K John, Returning officer, Mr Balasundara Raman, Polling officer The terms of reference for the committee include - Announce the elections and call for nominations by members - Ensure that there are at least the minimum number of nominations by encouraging members to submit their nomination forms - Screen the nominations and form a slate for Election - Work with EC to arrange for printing and posting of ballots - Conduct the voting for members participating in person during AGM - Count the valid ballots (both postal and in person) and announce the winners. I request your support and cooperation to the committee for the smooth conduct of Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012 Regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia Chapter ___ 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] FOSS.in - call for proposals open till 8 July
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, Jackerhack was there hacking scripts in python, but no one else. Oh yes, ther was an Open Street Map presentation too! http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/making-out-at-fossdotin/ Ashwin On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: If we can do some plans for talks/technical seminars/hands on etc, I can talk to my organiser friends there. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: So FOSS.IN is back I see. We were supposed to have had a slot back in 2009, but nothing happened of it. It would be great if something materialises this year. Was the last one in 2009? I remember the previous foss.in had a wikipedia stall with wiki readers to play around with. There most definitely would be a stall again this time too. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ 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 -- j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ 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 -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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 ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Request for feedback on draft Rules for Elections and appointments to Chapter positions
Hi All, In order to streamline the process for elected and appointed positions of the Chapter, Chapter EC has come up with Draft ruleshttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdffor feedback from members and community. Please share your feedback by *June 29 2012* preferably 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 mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu Wiktionary launches WOTD
Hi, Telugu Wiktionary launched Word Of The Day (WOTD) feature on its first page[1] yesterday. The series is featuring words as per the Telugu alphabet with today's word being COW (ఆవు). On behalf of Telugu Wiktionary community, I thank Tejas Jain, Kannada Wiktionarian (user page[2]) for all the tech help over three weeks in creating and fine tuning the templates for WOTD and also for updating the first page to give a new look. This feature has been a long felt need for Telugu Wiktionary and not much work was done due to lack of competent tech editors in Telugu after the initial roll out period of 2006-2009. During the recent special Bangalore meetup with Hisham and Barry, there was a good discussion around the needs of Indian language wikipedias. I, representing Telugu wikipedia and OmShivaprakash, Kannada SIG Chair shared the need for fixing the template problems. Hisham helped us connect with an English Wikipedia Editor with technology interest. I projected WOTD and Infobox India Jursidiction templates (translated into Telugu long time back) as the major need. However the said editor expressed regret as he is not comfortable with working on localised tempaltes. Tejas who happened to see the discussion offered to help out with WOTD as he has done a similar thing for Kannada. After two weeks of development and updates based on feedback, the feature is now released. Thanks to Hisham for interaction and followups which helped in getting us connect with Tejas. We need 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%9F%E0%B0%BF_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80 [2] http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Teju2friends ___ 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] Report on WCI 2011
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Ravi, Yes, the Chapter needs to release the accounts once they have done their statutory audit requirements etc. In this regard, Arjuna Rao Chawala may kindly respond. The audit of transactions under 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 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource
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 not working with Gujarati. The bug is filed a while ago, and I have been told that it may get quite a long time to fix the issue. Without having capability of exporting the page as PDF or preparing a book, I won't really feel to rush for the book release. You can create PDF via export to Open document type format and then reworking in Libreoffice Writer. I have done such a thing for the introductory book on Ubuntu in Telugu.http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UbuntuUserGuideTeluguEbook.pdffrom Wikibooks. Here is a presentationhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_publish_a_book_with_FOSS.pdfon how it was done. Let me know if you need clarifications. Regards Arjuna ___ 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] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report
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. It was super awesome and super productive! The 'Unofficial' Chennai Wikimedia Hackathon(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012) happened on Saturday, March 17 2012 at the Thoughtworks office in Chennai. It was a one day, 8 hour event focusing on getting people together to hack on stuff related to all Wikimedia projects - not just Mediawiki patches. Great to know that so much happened on just one day. Congratulations to all the participants and organizers for having such a productive event. Best wishes Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India resolution on Chapters council
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 after due deliberations. The Chapters Conference in Berlin is expected to deliberate this topic and decide on the formation of Chapters council in the next few days The Executive Committee of Wikimedia India hereby resolves: 1. Wikimedia India strongly supports the establishment of the Wikimedia Chapters Council. 2. Wikimedia India authorises Naveen Francis and Tinu Cherian, its delegates to the Wikimedia meeting in Berlin to negotiate the founding document of the Chapters Council on behalf of Wikimedia India and to sign it. 3. Wikimedia India’s joining of the Chapters Council will be subject to the approval of the Executive Committee. 4. Additionally, Wikimedia India offers support to any task that is necessary for the successful establishment of the Chapters Council, subject to such tasks being compliant with Indian legal system. Best regards 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/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An easy way to improve the spelling and grammar in the Wikipedia in your language
Base Telugu words though old were already available under GPL, thanks to the efforts of IIIT, Hyderabad which digitized CPBrown English-Telugu dictionary. I just used it for Telugu spell checker. I did not package it as a dictionary, as the purpose is served by spell checker add 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, this is very good! I wonder why doesn't it appear in the full list of spelling dictionaries. I filed a bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736786 Spell checkers for indic languages have only limited success, due to the complex nature of Indic languages. Advanced algorithms developed in Universities are yet to reach the common users. If the software is free, it can be distributed through Mozilla, OpenOffice and Google services like GMail and Google Docs. In the particular case of Mozilla, the spelling dictionary can be included in the version of Firefox that people download, but only if it's licensed as GPL, LGPL and MPL. This requirement is strange to me, but Mozilla are very firm about it. Since you are the author of this particular dictionary, you can decide to license it this way, and then it will be installed to all users by default. The other way to distribute it is just to advertise it any way you can - blogs, comments, Facebook, anything. Spelling checkers should be advertised more :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore ___ 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 ___ 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] Wikipedia Telugu article count crosses 50, 000
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 all fellow Wikipedians and others who contributed and supported. అర్జున Arjuna - మెబైల్ ద్వారా పంపబడివది Sent via mobile On Mar 14, 2012 12:04 AM, రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ nani1o...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all Wikipedia Telugu's article count has crossed 50,000 mark. On this occasion, I congratulate everyone who was directly and indirectly involved. Now I request every tewiki user to concentrate on articles' quality improvement. తెవికీ సభ్యులందరి కృషి వలన తెవికీ ౫ వ్యాసాల మైలురాయిని దాట గలిగింది. అందరికీ శుభాకాంక్షలు. ఇకపై ప్రత్యేక వ్యాసం యొక్క నాణ్యతను మెరుగుపరుద్దాం. -- Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని ॥రామానుజార్య దివ్యాజ్ఞాం వర్ధతామభివర్ధతాం॥ Telugu Wikipedia : http://te.wikipedia.org A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com ___ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy for Communication students of ASCOM, Coimbatore - Blog post
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 ___ 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] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'
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 and any relevant local content. PDF generation has issues with rendering complex scripts. This has been one of the major issues which multiple Indic communities have asked to fix for sometime now. Open bug[1]. During WCI Nasir khan(Bengali wikipedian) asked about the same and Santhosh had mentioned it might take some time as its not easy to fix. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28206 If something needs to be done, there is always work around for example via Libreoffice. Check out the Telugu User guide for Ubuntu that I brought out last year with content from Wikibooks. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UbuntuUserGuideTeluguEbook.pdf Cheers Arjuna ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] CFF: Wiki Academy at Coimbatore for Journalism Communication Students on 28 Jan 2012
*Hi,**Amrita College for Journalism Communication, Coimbatore have expressed interest in a Wiki Academy and proposed 28 Jan 2012 FN for the same. I need to inform them about the number of facilitators for making stay arrangements at their campus.* The travel expense from nearby cities(Like 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@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Call For Participation: IEEE P1908.1™ Working Group, Virtual keyboard Standard for Indian Languages
-- Forwarded message -- From: IEEE Standards Association reply-151...@ieeestandards.org Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:10 PM Subject: Call For Participation: IEEE P1908.1™ Working Group To: ** Please click herehttp://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,8wew,98w7,9fvj,ij9dif you are having trouble viewing this email [image: IEEE]http://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,br4z,wvm,9fvj,ij9d [image: IEEE Standards Association]http://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,7gev,ddhj,9fvj,ij9d Call For Participation IEEE 1908.1™ Working Group Virtual Keyboard Standard for Indic Languages IEEE 1908.1™ Working Group is seeking participants to develop IEEE P1908.1™. Sponsored by IEEE Communications Societyhttp://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,bl94,7f2e,9fvj,ij9d, the standard is for Indic virtual keyboards. [image: An example of Virtual keyboard for Hindi on smart phones adapting INSCRIPT (Courtesy: Multiling keyboard)]Individuals working independently, and/or supported by their employers from industry/ government/ academia/ non-governmental organizations, with interest in Indic (Indian) languages and their computing needs, are invited to participate in this new working group. The objective of the working group is to deliberate the virtual keyboard technologies and issues for modern phones/tablet computing device, with touch screen interface, and compose and shape the standard. This standard will contain a conceptual model applicable to all Indian languages with appropriate customization for each language. *Need for the Standard:* A large majority of Indians are not comfortable using computing devices with an English keyboard interface. INSCRIPT layout was standardized by the Indian government in 1986 for QWERTY physical keyboards, with the aim of interoperability and touch typing for all Indian languages. Due to limitations in accommodating the preferences of languages other than Hindi, the high learning curve because of lack of phonetic mapping between English and Indian language characters, and the lack of availability of physical keyboards with Indian language characters, alternate layouts, and transliteration based input methods as per the preferences of vendors and users proliferated. Phones/Tablets with touch user interface can display characters on keyboard dynamically for each language. This can help people easily use their phones for data needs in their native language. INSCRIPT cannot be adopted easily for the following reasons: it uses the top row (the row above QWERTY) of the conventional keyboard and punctuation keys for Hindi alphabet. With the smaller screen size and resolution on mobile phones, the virtual keyboards are limited to only four rows, covering the basic English alphabet needs. Therefore INSCRIPT is not usable readily even for Hindi. The proposed standard will help in taking the benefits of computing and communication technologies to everyone. Sign up for membership in the working group (prior to the group’s inaugural meeting, which is tentatively set for *January 25, 2012*) by visiting the working group wiki page http://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,9za0,52hy,9fvj,ij9dand following the instructions. Information 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,1lqq0,38mt,de2,8sck,9fvj,ij9d 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08854 *Connect with us* [image: Facebook]http://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,m46n,1bh4,9fvj,ij9d [image: Twitter]http://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,d62d,m46m,9fvj,ij9d [image: LinkedIn]http://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,k4te,2b0g,9fvj,ij9d Copyright 2012 IEEE-SAhttp://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,571l,hz5v,9fvj,ij9d http://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,571l,hz5v,9fvj,ij9d | IEEE-SA Homehttp://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,de2,8sck,9fvj,ij9d |Privacy Securityhttp://ieeestandards.org/c.html?rtr=ons=8nv,1lqq0,38mt,m9ew,cgf6,9fvj,ij9d To unsubscribe, send email with Subject: Unsubscribe to: * unsubscribe-reply-151...@ieeestandards.org*unsubscribe-reply-151...@ieeestandards.org ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Call-December Update
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 Operations Hisham provided an update on the status of India Programs staffing. He spoke about the challenges getting the right candidate for Consultant, Communications, and requested help on this. Hisham also briefed the Chapter about the offer that was accepted by Subhashish Panigrahi and the redesignation of his position from Consultant, Team Support to Consultant, Community Program Support. Chapter provided an update about the formation of five task forces to increase member involvement and ownership in both the operations and projects. Several SIG Chairs have been announced and some more are being explored. Programs Hisham shared an update on Indic languages. He mentioned that summaries of discussions had been shared for all languages where discussions had taken place and also that a synthesis of these discussions and recommendations / suggestions had been shared by Shiju. He further said that the next stage would be to give specific suggestions for individual language communities on the respective village pumps / mailing lists. He also said that an effort would be made to encourage every single active editor to participate in the discussions of these suggestions and every avenue possible - including identifying and reaching out to individual editor’s talk pages would be explored. The eventual outcome will be to promote community discussion, provide suggestions for community initiatives and identify areas where communities wanted support from India Programs for pilots or other help. Hisham said that learnings from IEP are being gathered and documented and that any future IEP initiatives will be designed based on learnings and with community inputs. India Programs had provided some support to the West Bengal initiative for the Kolkata Book Fair as well as to the Pune community for te CMDA IT expo stall. Hisham mentioned that some CAs are planning to start a student club in Pune on their own initiative - and that India Programs had provided advisory support. Hisham also outlined the work that Nitika was doing to support community outreach efforts through collating and sharing best practices and outreach material. Wikimedia India (board) appreciated the detailed planning and execution material being prepared by Nitika. EC suggested to Hisham to engage with SIG chairs, as the objectives of strengthening the community is common to both. Hisham said that India Programs would support Wiki Academies. Both of these were agreed. Naveen explored the support that can be provided by India Programs. Hisham extended all the possible help for any outreach initiative. Hisham also offered help to EC for Arun’s work Special Projects (e.g., GLAM, etc.) It is agreed that EC members and India programs team will reach out to one another as required on each project for better coordination. A discussion on formalising a collaboration framework has been initiated. It is agreed to speed up the work on the same. 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/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports
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 Only 1.9 % of traffic for Wikimedia Projects is from India. ( 13th position) *Page Views Per Wikipedia Language* http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerLanguageBreakdown.htm From India : --cut-- Glad to see part of the stats that I have been waiting for quite some time. The # of unique visitors from India is the other part that I hope will be included soon. Interesting to see that Marathi tops followed by Hindi, Telugu and Kannada. I found a good % for Kannada coming from China equal to US, which seems a bit unusal. Probably the general distribution for languages, also reflects the distribution of the Indian language speaking diaspora across the world. Cheers Arjuna ___ 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] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011
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 my knowledge, World Classical Tamil Conference 2010http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Classical_Tamil_Conference_2010was the only time Tamil wikipedians and --cut-- More important is, to grow Indic wikipedias some community members need to take some extra effort. Thanks for the clarifications. Agree with your above recommendation. But unfortunately, the community could not be strengthened due to various issues like access to Internet. computing platform, issues with rendering and input methods and we ended up with stub articles remaining in the same state. That is the case in all Indic wikis which used bots to increase the number of articles. According to me strength of the community also should grow as the number of articles grows. If we focus on community growth, articles numbers will grow as a natural outcome of that. As we already saw it will not happen the other way round for Indic wikipedias. As one editor pointed out in discussions, *Users will be attached to a wiki only if they feel proud about it*. So it is important that we should plan some programs to retain existing users and attract more new users to Indic wikis. We need to have some programs to bring back our old editors also. Bringing back old editors could be more difficult than bringing new editors. I talked to few experienced but currently dormant editors on Telugu Wiki and was not successful. Cheers Arjun ___ 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] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks, As you might be aware, the Consultant, Team Support position is to be filled as part of the India Programs team. ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004251.html.) I am really 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 ___ 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] mediawiki-uploader
Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: hi arjuna, thanks for the wishes. I am also very new to wikipedia. please give some more details on categories. Please see Wiki Conference India as a sample category http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2011 The listing sees around 537 out of which I came to know around 300 or so were contributed by User:RameshNG. I am sure the contributor would have spent a lot of time adding categories to all such images. shall we give any text as category or some pre defined text 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 the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader
Shrinivasan, On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: Friends. Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world. --cut-- DigiKam has it, but due to some issues, the mediawiki plugin is not released. So, I started to write my own script for uploading all the files in a folder to upload to mediawiki. Here is it. http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-uploader Thanks a lot for your innovation to ease upload of images to commons. Thanks also for making it open source, as it can be inspiration for others to improve it and/or build other tools, which can simiplify working with wiki projects. Based on my previous experience with commons, the category addition is a pain point, even with current default tools on commons. Categories are not added as part 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 ___ 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] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011
Hi Shiju, On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, --cut-- I have now completed sharing initial, introductory, exploratory discussions with a host of community members from across Indic language communities. I have shared these for 12 languages (Assamesehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Assamese/Discussions/2011, Hindihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Hindi/Discussions/2011, Tamilhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Tamil/Discussions/2011, Teluguhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Telugu/Discussions/2011, Kannadahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011, Nepalihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Neplai/Discussions/2011, Malayalamhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Malayalam/Discussions/2011, Marathihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Marathi/Discussions/2011, Odiahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011, Sanskrithttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Sanskrit/Discussions/2011, Bengalihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Bengali/Discussions/2011, and Gujaratihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Gujarati/Discussions/2011 .) Thanks for the extensive work you have done in surveying the language Wikipedias and sharing insights on key priorities. I have browsed through the reports and found them interesting. Community --cut-- 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. Projects There is a constant debate of what should come first - article count or article quality? I --cut-- When some of the language Wikipedias started to use the bots for creating stub articles, they would have imagined the strengthening of community to improve the same. But unfortunately, the community could not be strengthened due to various issues like access to Internet. computing platform, issues with rendering and input methods and we ended up with stub articles remaining in the same state. I agree that use of bots for example could have been limited to District/ Mandal(Taluk) headquarters rather than covering all the villages in the case of Telugu Wikipedia for example. If appropriate stubs are created as part of overall project with committed community members and a definite time frame, seeding of the pages with stubs could be useful. Readership --cut-- As internet penetration and mobile data access increase, we will get even more Indic readers. +1 I also want to try and identify potential areas of support that India Programs could work closely with communities on. The idea is to support community across languages. We would like to identify a very limited (1 or 2) pilots of a very controlled nature (in terms of scale) that we would like to collaboratively design with respective communities. Given the efforts that will be required in any pilot (even if it is of a relatively small scale), we believe that there needs to be a certain basic level of community size and collaboration to be able handle such pilots. Chapter has kicked off Language SIGs for some of the languages. I am sure the language SIG chairs and the active language Wikipedians will be eager to interact with you 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
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, These are my insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam. I have put them in form of some key questions. For me it was a brilliant learning experience. So, most of these answers are not mine, rather they have been generated as collaborative responses by various people from different chapters. I am grateful to WMF, WM-NL and WM-UK for their special interest in helping encourage GLAM participation in India. This is the link to the programs: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_Amsterdam#Schedule and in each session you will find an etherpad link to the live discussion! --cut-- Thanks Noopur for the detailed writeup. I am glad that you found it to be a great learning experience. Chapter is expected to play a key role in GLAM initiative, based on our discussion with Liam in the beginning of the year. We had some interactions with Dept of Public Libraries,Government of Karnataka and also Kannada Government Encyclopaedia project http://kanaja.in(digital library) Can you help seed some events around this? You can use the GLAMhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/GLAMproject page on Wikimedia.in for sharing your 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/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages
Hi Friends, Indic languages have an opportunity to gain their rightful place in the computing and communications world on par with English or other languages, with the availability of smart phones and tablet computers with touch user interface at lower price points. I have been involved in leading a study group on this topic for the last one year to develop the project proposal for virtual keyboard standard. I am glad to report that the project for development of standard has been approved by IEEE-SA on Dec 8, 2011. More details on this initiative are available at https://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 ___ 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
- Sent via mobile On Dec 12, 2011 7:18 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit confused Arjuna, is the study over or yet to begin? There has been some background work about the proposal and sharing of current status. The real work is about to begin. 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
Hi, Response in line.. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, The Wikimedia Localisation team has been very much active in this field and we have implemented the inscript one standard as well as other existing keyboard methods. We have met with CDAC and Red Hat about our current Narayam implementations and our and their future plans. Our notion is that using standard compliant and freely licensed technology is the way forward. Thanks for the update. On our road map there are the unknowns of how to support smart phones, tablet computers, not only for the official languages of India but for all of them including scripts .. We are very happy to participate in any project that has as its goal to create standardised input methods for any kind of device. We can provide an environment for testing; we can support experimental keyboard methods side by side at translatewiki.net. When things become stable, we are quite happy to expose the world to new standards on the WMF wikis. Is this the kind of support that would help you ? Certainly! It will be a great opportunity to come up with virtual keyboard as required for each language with participation of the relevant users. Active indic language wikipedians can play a key role in this initiative. The proposed mode of standard development is open for participation by every one. Though for the final balloting and to decide on any alternatives, IEEE-SA membership 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 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] 1st Wiki Academy, Jaya Engineering College, Bangalore
Subhashish, On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Wikimedia India chapter has organized a Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering College in Chennai on 11 December 2011. The detailed summary below: --cut-- Thanks for a detailed summary and also more importantly on the potential for future opportunities with the organisation. - *Foundation of a Wiki-Club*: Prof. G. Prabhakaran, Computer Science dept brought a proposal for a Wiki-Club by engaging the Jaya FOSS volunteers which could organize recurrent Wiki events in the campus. The FOSS club is already interacting with many Open source academicians, speakers and researchers from major institutes like IIT, Madras. FOSS Activities in India is taking a progressive shape and it could be used for more collaborative Wiki initiatives to bring up more editors. The link 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 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
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Arjuna, while I don't really understand what is the ultimate aim, I sincerely hope that this will result in Indic support across mobile devices. Indic support from rendering and input method point of view is currently available on some mobile devices. Some virtual keyboards are using phonetic approach which use English keyboard. Some others are following an adhoc modification to INSCRIPT. There are some vendors with patented solutions for 12 key interface. But there is no standard of virtual keyboard for touch interface, which makes it easy even for a class 1 student of indic language to type his name for example. This initiative is aimed at bridging that gap. Once the standard is approved, indic support in a standardized way should be available on most smart phones and tablets. Since it will be packaged as mobile app, it can be deployed on even older version of smart phones with touch interface. Hope this helps. Cheers Arjun On 12/12/2011, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit confused Arjuna, is the study over or yet to begin? Warm regards, 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 with English or other languages, with the availability of smart phones and tablet computers with touch user interface at lower price points. I have been involved in leading a study group on this topic for the last one year to develop the project proposal for virtual keyboard standard. I am glad to report that the project for development of standard has been approved by IEEE-SA on Dec 8, 2011. More details on this initiative are available at https://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 ___ 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 -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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 ___ 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
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:39 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Arjuna, while I don't really understand what is the ultimate aim, I sincerely hope that this will result in Indic support across mobile devices. Traditionally, on the desktop devices, Indic support has generally meant the ability to do the following: - display/render - print - input The underlying software architecture, which is fashionably called the plumbing, has been present and keeps lock-step with the currently available and published standards and specifications. Input forms an interesting aspect because of the diverse nature of possibilities provided and requested - an example could be the variety of the keyboard layouts available. While a myriad variety in the keyboard layouts is possible on a standard physical keyboard (hardware), such variety is a bit difficult to attain on the mobile device hardware having an actual physical keyboard. Even in the case of mobile devices with an on-screen keyboard, the ability to standardize on a specific set of layouts, based on various factors (eg. computation of the highest used key combinations) would be of immense use. Thanks for the nice explanation. At this stage, the only aspect I'd request to be made clear is how does one participate in the effort. For example, reading through the current list of participants I don't see Google (as an example). It would be nicer to have distributions participate because they allow the quickest path to reference implementation of standards. I have reached out to most people who have interest in this area. We will be publicizing this initiative more vigorously, now that the project is approved. The proposed mode of standard development is open for participation by every one. Though for the final balloting and to decide on any alternatives, IEEE-SA membership will be needed, which again is being offered at reduced rates for Indians. The official Work Group will be kicked 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-stdsA=1 . 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] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes
Hi Srikanth R, Please allow me to share my view. On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Hisham, I don't understand why the Executive Committee offer to be informed 48 HOURS in advance of the community. Isn't Wikipedia a community based system? If the chapter or trust is everything then what is the community sitting here to do? I know I sound rude, but I fail to understand why some people get prior preference. Especially after I spend an entire day talking to newcomers telling them that everyone in Wiki is equal. I am some times puzzled by assumption that people have about Wikipedia policies for individuals related to editing a wiki page online apply equally to real world Wikimedia organisations with accountabilties to various stakeholders including Government. I am also concerned about the assumed separation between community and chapter based on some recent mails to the India list. Let me elaborate my thoughts on this. Chapter members including EC members are part of community and serve Community and the movement. It is just the level and structure of engagement of a person that determines whether he/she is part of Chapter. If a person reads Wikipedia, he/she is member of community. If a person contributes to Wikipedia, he/she is part of smaller subset of communitycalled editors. If a person would like to promote Wikipedia in real world, he could do as an individual or become a member of chapter, leverage the benefits of the legal entity called Wikimedia chapter, get affiliated with SIGs and contribute. Chapter IRC is open for everyone. Even membership is open for every Indian aged above 18. So I would request everyone to treat Chapter as a subset of community with more focus on growing the movement in real world. Coming to your specific question about the plan for sharing public communications in advance, here is my view. As I understand, Trust is an independent legal entity contributing to Wikimedia movement in India. So the coordination calls are a mechanism to share plans and issues so that the overall effectiveness can be improved. Advance notice for any public communication was agreed so that each entity could provide the other feedback if any, if such communication were to attribute some things to the other or lead to confusion in the stakeholders. It is mutual. I am 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 been have a monthly call between the India Chapter and India Programs team. Since we last updated you, we have had 2 calls and also a face-to-face meeting after WikiConference. Here's an update on these meetings. I must beforehand apologize for being so late on updating you on these calls / meetings. Shall endeavor to be more on schedule going forward. Do share your feedback and comments. Do let us know if there are any clarifications we can provide. Thursday November 9th (Voice Conference) [Arjun, Arun, Naveen, Sudhanwa, Tinu, Asaf Hisham] India Programs Update India Trust has been set up and a formal announcement will be made shortly on this matter. India Education Program has encountered significant problems with regard to copy-pasted material. While efforts have been made (including asking for help from Online Ambassadors), in-class sessions from Campus Ambassadors (in almost every single class of the program), asking for intervention from faculty, asking students only to work on sandboxes, etc., the situation remained particularly serious at College of Engineering, Pune. As a result, the program was suspended at this college. It currently runs at 1 class at Symbiosis School of Economics (while the other classes there have concluded their assignments) and at 1 class at SNDT Women's University. Specifically, the lessons learnt on the pilot were discussed. These included scale, choice of faculty, choice of classes, inadequate engagement and communication with en-wp community, modifications to Campus Ambassador training going forward, modifications to student training going forward, etc. It was pointed out that a comprehensive and honest learnings exercise would be undertaken. Recruitment of additional team members (for Communications and for Team Support) have been delayed because the right candidate was not available. The initial work on the Indic Languages initiatives would start off with preliminary discussions and data analysis of the various language projects. This will help to build a picture with both experience and data of the current state, challenges, opportunities and potential of the various projects. Eventually, the objective will be to identify
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates Minutes
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 Chapter or expectations from the Chapter or some statement about the understanding reached with Chapter, the same could be agreed through this feedback mechanism. Cheers Arjun ___ 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] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
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 content pages, I was looking around and found the share gadget on Hebrew wikipedia and have adapted the gadget code[3] to Tamil[4]. Since Indic wikipedias need more people to read the articles, this might be useful gadget you might want to your Indic wikiprojects. Should you need any help to get this on your wiki, please ping me off-list. Thanks Hebrew community for the code Bala/Surya for helping out. Okay, next time you read a good article on Tamil Wikipedia, just share with your friends :) [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest [2] http://www.facebook.com/tawmc [3] http://tawp.in/r/2v3x [4] http://tawp.in/r/2v42 Nice idea. Other indic wikipedias could leverage the same. Thanks Arjun ___ 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] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 02:13, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Very cool. :) Thank you! Is there going to be any way to measure how often this happens, and for what pages? Other communities have spent many hours discussing this (including English Wikipedia) with little success. Data on how social sharing leads to greater readership, enthusiasm for Wikipedia, and even possibly editing would be fantastic to have. For us any number is good :) Having said that, I have subscribed to the hashtag on twitter, so can get some numbers in sometime, not sure about checking facebook. Absolutely no way to get a count of emails :D. We need more readership, so we knock all the doors without worrying much on effect, but most of the efforts we take(Contests, Featured Wikimedians, Sitenotice campaigns) give us good results for our scale.(IMO except physical outreach which gives the least RoI). We are also planning to start a full fledged facebook page soon(may be post the media contest) to leverage facebook more to showcase DYK, ITN, FA, FPX and hope to get more visitors,editors. On English community's debate, its in a very different galaxy, am not even sure if we are in same universe(on numbers etc), So things differ. I saw this used on Wiki Conference India page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number 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@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu e-zine special issue on Wiki Conference 2011 released
Please check for Telugu e-zine Tewiki Vartha speciall issue on Wiki Conference 2011 http://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%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%3A%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4oldid=625497 http://te.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%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%3A%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0 %95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4oldid=625497 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Update on City/language SIG
-- 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 members have volunteered and/or accepted the nomination from fellow members to lead the SIG. EC has decided to appoint them as the Chairpersons for the respective SIGs as given below. User:AshLin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin, English SIG Rahimanuddin Shaikhttp://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D, Telugu SIG A Radhakrishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna, Bangalore SIG Please extend your support to them in all SIG activities. We are continuing to discuss with other city/language members and will keep you updated on the developments. 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/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:12 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: For this work, I think it's _imperative_ to get a high-quality, Indic version available for mass-distribution. But while the full, all-encompassing offline version might take 6-7 months to develop, there are bite-sized pieces we can concretely work on so we can start at least pushing some information out. For example, if we focus on Geography first, we could perhaps get a really good Geography package set-up and ready to go by the next pilot, in order to at least get a package out there - something to have a presence within the distributions. The storage space on the Aakash tablet and other low-cost devices is minimal, so a limited content package is actually fine, in many ways. The version of Android available on the tablet could be a hindrance to display/render/input of Indic. Samsung Ace and few other models of smart phones are able to render most spoken Indic languages. Hopefully, other vendors will also start to support indic soon and Akash tablet will have enough computing power to deal 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/wikimediaindia-l
