Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - March '13
Dear all, Reposting the contents of the newsletter within the email. Apologies for the confusion again. In case of suggestions, questions and more please do reply on this thread. --The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - March '13-- ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE BULLETIN - MARCH 2013 Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation's India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program of CIS. In the third issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are pleased to bring you updates from the Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project, reports of events organised in Goa, and press coverage of the Kannada Wikipedia Workshop held in Mysore. The A2K team consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan, Nitika Tandon, Subhashish Panigrahi and Noopur Raval, and one member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja who is working from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here. Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId. # Indic Wikipedia Visualisation Project * Visualising Basic Parameters [1] (by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattapadhyay, March 26, 2013): Sajjad and Sumandro bring you a visualisation of the growth of Indic Wikipedia in this first post on Indic Wikipedia Visualisation project. # Events Organised * Introductory Wikipedia session at BITS Goa [2] (organised by CIS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Goa, March 7, 2013). The Access to Knowledge team was invited by Nikhil Dixit from BITS to organise a Wikipedia editing session. Nitika Tandon led the editing session. * Kannada Wikipedia Workshop [3] (organised by CIS, Institution of Engineers, JLB Road, Mysore, March 24, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja led the event. # Events Co-organised * Wiki Women's Day in Goa [4] (organised by the Wikimedia India Chapter and CIS, Nirmala Institute of Education, Panaji, Goa, March 8, 2013). Nitika Tandon participated in this workshop held on International Working Women's Day, and shares the developments in this report. * Wikipedia Workshop for Kannada Science Writers [5] (organised by Wikimedia Chapter India, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath and CIS, Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishath Conference Hall, Banashankari 2nd Stage, Bangalore, March 17, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. # Upcoming Event (Co-organised) * Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam 2013 [6] (co-organised with the Telegu Wikipedia community, Hyderabad, April 9 to 11, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan is participating in this event as a speaker. A public event will be held on April 11 from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m. at Golden Threshold (Sarojini Naidu's house) in Hyderabad. # Events Participated In * Wikipedia Women's Workshop Bangalore 2013 [7] (organised by Wikimedia India, Servelots Infotech, Jayanagar, Bangalore, March 8, 2013). The event was covered by Kannada Prabha [8] on March 9, 2013. Dr. U.B. Pavanaja participated in the event. * Wikipedia at Avenir [9] (organised by the Wikipedia community, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 11, 2013). Dr. T. Vishnu Vardhan participated in this event. # Event Report from Other Organisations Wikipedia Community members helped the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications Programme (HEIRA) of CSCS Bangalore organize a day-long workshop on 'Digital Literacy' at Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharasthra on January 17, 2013. Tanveer Hasan of HEIRA shares with us the developments in this report [10]. # Media Coverage * Kannada Wikipedia Workshop, Mysore [11] (Prajavani, March 25, 2013). *About CIS [12]* CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility, Access to Knowledge, Openness, Internet Governance, and Telecom. The policy research programmes have resulted in outputs such as the e-Accessibility Policy Handbook for Persons with Disabilities [13] with ITU and G3ict, and Digital Alternatives with a Cause? [14], Thinkathon Position Papers [15] and the Digital Natives with a Cause? Report [16] with Hivos, etc. We have conducted policy research for the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, etc., on WIPO Treaties [17], Copyright Bill [18], NIA Bill [19], etc. CIS is accredited as an observer at WIPO. CIS staff participates in the Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meetings regularly held in Geneva, and participate in the dis
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - March '13
Dear Anivar, I apologize profusely for sending a doc file. Usually, as in the past, I always send the entire newsletter in the mail. However, this time due to some miscommunication I assumed I had to send across an attachment. I am, of course, fully aware of the problems with sending attachments and that too, non-free formats. Will be more careful in the future and am sending across the content as text in e-mail itself. Thanks for pointing it out. Best, Noopur On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:20:40 +0530, Anivar Aravind wrote: > Thanks Arun, > > But my emphasis was on organisational policy on newsletter format > > Anivar ___ 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] The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - March '13
Dear all, Please find attached the Access to Knowledge bulletin for March 2013. For feedback, suggestions and queries please do write to us or you could respond to this thread. Thank you, Noopur Raval Access to Knowledge Newsletter (March 2013).docx Description: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document ___ 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] [A2K]: Indic Wikipedia Visualization Project #1
Dear all, Here is the link to the blog post by Sajjad Anwar and Sumandro Chattopadhyay on the visualization of the growth of Indic Wikipedias: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/indic-wikipedia-visualisation-project-visualising-basic-parameters The data obtained is for the period from January 2001 to December 2012 and has been visualized into motion charts and calendar charts. The parameters used have also been listed chart wise. I am not sure if Sajjad and Sumandro are on the mailing lists but I would be happy to connect you with them or take the community responses to them if any. Best, Noopur ___ 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-l] Announcement *please read*
FYI because I didn't see this reach the India list. Apologies if it has already. Begin forwarded message: > From: Sue Gardner > Date: March 28, 2013, 3:34:49 AM GMT+05:30 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement *please read* > Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > Hello Wikimedia community members, > > This is not an easy e-mail to write, and it’s been a very hard > decision to make. But I’m writing to tell you that I’m planning to > leave my position as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia > Foundation. > > My departure isn’t imminent -- the Board and I anticipate it’ll take > at least six months to recruit my successor, and I’ll be fully engaged > as Executive Director all through the recruitment process and until we > have a new person in place. We’re expecting that’ll take about six > months or so, and so this note is not goodbye -- not yet. > > Making the decision to leave hasn’t been easy, but it comes down to two > things. > > First, the movement and the Wikimedia Foundation are in a strong place > now. When I joined, the Foundation was tiny and not yet able to > reliably support the projects. Today it's healthy, thriving, and a > competent partner to the global network of Wikimedia volunteers. If > that wasn’t the case, I wouldn’t feel okay to leave. In that sense, my > leaving is a vote of confidence in our Board and executive team and > staff --- I know they will ably steer the Foundation through the years > ahead, and I’m confident the Board will appoint a strong successor to > me. > > And I feel that although we’re in good shape, with a promising future, > the same isn’t true for the internet itself. (This is thing number > two.) Increasingly, I’m finding myself uncomfortable about how the > internet’s developing, who’s influencing its development, and who is > not. Last year we at Wikimedia raised an alarm about SOPA/PIPA, and > now CISPA is back. Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands > of industry groups and governments, and we’re --increasingly, I > think-- seeing important decisions made by unaccountable > non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile > walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based internet to one > that’s consumption-based. There are many organizations and individuals > advocating for the public interest online -- what’s good for ordinary > people -- but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they > are. I want that to change. And that’s what I want to do next. > > I’ve always aimed to make the biggest contribution I can to the > general public good. Today, this is pulling me towards a new and > different role, one very much aligned with Wikimedia values and > informed by my experiences here, and with the purpose of amplifying > the voices of people advocating for the free and open internet. I > don’t know exactly what this will look like -- I might write a book, > or start a non-profit, or work in partnership with something that > already exists. Either way, I feel strongly that this is what I need > to do. > > I feel an increasing sense of urgency around this. That said, I also > feel a strong sense of responsibility (and love!) for the Wikimedia > movement, and so I’ve agreed with the Board that I’ll stay on as > Executive Director until we have my successor in place. That’ll take > some time -- likely, at least six months. > > Until then, nothing changes. The Wikimedia Foundation has lots of work > to do, and you can expect me to focus fully on it until we have a new > Executive Director in place. > > I have many people to thank, but I’m not going to do it now -- > there’ll be time for that later. For now, I’ll just say I love working > with you all, I’m proud of everything the Wikimedia movement is > accomplishing, and I’m looking forward to our next six months > together. > > Jan-Bart’s going to write a note in a couple of minutes with > information about the transition process. We’ll be hosting office > hours this weekend as well, so anybody with questions can ask them > here or turn up to talk with us on IRC. > > Thanks, > Sue > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-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] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - February '13
Dear all, Correction: There is a mistake in the newsletter in the Events Organized section. The Creative Commons event in Bangalore was NOT organized by A2K team. It was organized by members of the Wikimedia India Chapter and A2K team members, Nitika and Subhashish attended it and helped with documentation only. Apologies for the error. We are working to fix it in the main newsletter as well. Thank you, Noopur On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:01:14 +0500, noopur wrote: > Dear all, > > Here is the A2K newsletter for the month of February, 2013. > > Wikimedia Foundation, beginning from September 1, 2012, awarded the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) a two-year grant of INR 26,000,000 to support and develop free knowledge in India. Consequently, Wikimedia Foundation's India Program became the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program [1] of CIS. In the second issue of our newsletter for 2013, we are glad to introduce you to our new programme officer, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [2]. The A2K team [3] consists of four members based in Delhi: T. Vishnu Vardhan [4], Nitika Tandon [5], Subhashish Panigrahi [6] and Noopur Raval [7], and one new team member Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [8] who works from Bangalore office. Archives of our newsletters are here [9]. > > Wikipedians from various communities can request for outreach programs, technical bugs, logistics-merchandize and media, public relations and communications at http://bit.ly/TOcXId [10]. > > # New Team Member > > * Dr. U.B. Pavanaja [11] joined the A2K team as Programme Officer, India Language Initiatives on March 4, 2013. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years. He is one of the oldest editors of Kannada Wikipedia. He has to his credit many firsts, viz., first Kannada website, first Kannada online magazine, first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS, first Indian language (Kannada) editor for WinCE device (HP Jornado 720), first Indian language version (Kannada) of universally popular Logo (programming language for children) software, etc. His Kannada logo won the Manthan Award for the year 2006. He was a member of the technical advisory committee setup by the Govt. of Karnataka for Standardization of Kannada on Computers (2000). He is also a member of the Kannada Software Committee of Govt. of Karnataka (2008-current). > > # Events Organised by CIS > > * Creative Commons comes to India [12] (Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore, February 1, 2013). Meetings were held in Pune and Bangalore. The Access to Knowledge team participated in two meetings organized in Bangalore. > * Knowledge Sharing through GLAM at Bangalore [13](Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore, February 25, 2013). Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, Nitika Tandon and Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. > * Fifty-fourth Bangalore Wikimedia Meet-up at IIM, Bangalore [14] (co-organized with Radhakrishna Arvapally, Special Interest Group, Solutions IQ and Wikimedia India Chapter, Indian Institute of Management, February 25, 2013). Vishnu Vardhan gave a talk on accessibility and knowledge. Noopur Raval participated in the event. > > # Event Participated > > * GNUnify 2013 [15] (organized by Pune Linux/Unix User Group and Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research, Pune, February 15 - 17, 2013). Subhashish Panigrahi participated in the event. > > # Education Program > > * Odia Wikipedia Community Brings Wikipedia Education Program to IIMC, Dhenkanal [16] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, February 28, 2013). > > # Event Reports > CIS organised one Wiki workshop in the month of February 2013, and also brings you the report from an event organised in the month of January: > > * Celebrating Odia Wikipedia's Ninth Anniversary [17] (organized by the Odia Wiki Community with support from CIS and Academy for Media Learning, January 29, 2013, Bhubaneswar). Few glimpses of the event are available as an audio podcast. > * Digital Literacy Workshop at Department of Arts, Delhi University [18] (by Nitika Tandon, February 5, 2013). > > # Media Coverage > > * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆର ନବମ ଜନ୍ମତିଥି ଅବସରରେ କର୍ମଶାଳା: ଇମିଡ଼ିଆରେ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ [19] (Odishan.com, February 4, 2013). > * ସମ୍ବାଦ:_ _ଲିପି ବ୍ୟାକରଣ ଓ ମାନକ ଭାଷାର ପ୍ରୟୋଗ ଜରୁରୀ [20]. (Sambad, February, 2013). > * Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [21] (e India Bureau, March 2, 2013). > * Odia Wikipedia's 9th anniversary [22] (fullOrissa News, February 13, 2013). > * Odisha: Workshop organized on 9th Anniversary of Odia language: Application of Odia language in e-media [23] (India Education Diary.com, March 2, 2013). Subha
[Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages
Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward. Those associated with Indian language computing and especially that in Kannada may know him already for having started the first Kannada website: Vishvakannada.com, the first Kannada online magazine, the first Indian language (Kannada) website to receive Golden Web Award, the first Indian language (Kannada) editor for Palm OS and many more firsts. Dr. Pavanaja holds a Master's degree from Mysore University and Ph.D. from Mumbai University. He was a scientist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, for about 15 years and has done advanced research in Taiwan. He resigned from BARC in 1997 and dedicated himself fully for the cause of Computer and Indian languages. You could read more about his contributions here [1]. Prior to this he has also worked at Microsoft Research Labs and has been a long time contributor to Kannada Wikipedia. We are very fortunate to have him on board. You can reach him at pavanaja [at] cis-india [dot] org. Please join me in welcoming him to our community :) Thank you, Noopur Links: -- [1] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/pavanaja-profile.pdf ___ 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-l] Info: Karthik Nadar appointed as WCA Council member for Wikimedia India
FYI. This might have missed the India mailing list. Congratulations Karthik! :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Fae Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:43 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Karthik Nadar appointed as WCA Council member for Wikimedia India To: Wikimedia Mailing List , Wikimedia Chapters general discussions Dear Wikimedians, I am delighted to announce that Karthik Nadar has joined the Wikimedia Chapters Association Council. This appointment makes a total of 22 members.[1] Karthik is on the board of the Wikimedia India Chapter and serves as the secretary. He jumped to Wikimedia fame after volunteering to become a poster boy for the 2011 fundraiser.[2] Links 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Membership 2. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#Karthik_Nadar.27s_Appeal_December_3.2C_2011 Thanks, Fae -- Ashley Van Haeften (Fae) fae...@gmail.com Chapters Association Council Chair http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCA Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-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] Women's Day events in India, March 8
Dear Rohini, Just to extend this fantastic initiative, here's some more good news! The Hindi bloggers' club at IIT-Bombay called 'Vaani' wanted to have a Hindi Wikipedia workshop in March. Coincidentally, it is organized on March 9th from 5 to 9 pm. I will be attending the editing session. We are also planning to have a small workshop before that to make sure everyone's comfortable. We've proposed to make the editing session around women's articles! I've listed some of the Hindi articles that need expansion on the page you've made. It would be awesome if you or anyone else who is in Mumbai wants to join! There are a few Marathi Wikipedians from IIT who have also shown interest but I am yet to receive a confirmation. Just wanted to tell you that the good word's spreading :) Best, Noopur On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 21:57:20 +0530, Rohini Lakshané wrote: > A few online and offline events are being conducted in on the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8. The events continue thereafter too as March has been declared as Women's History Month. > > There is a Wikipedia editing workshop in Goa on March 8 at Nirmala Institute of Education from 3 pm to 5 pm. It is followed by an offline and online editathon. > The online editathon is a month-long affair, which will be held every weekend starting with the weekend after March 8. Details here: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India [1] > > The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in Wikipedia. The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various Indian languages. > > Members are requested to start edithons in regional language Wikipedias. > > Regards, > Rohini Lakshane Links: -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_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] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Would you like to be part of the international jury for WLPA?
Just an idea. The Wall Project guys are really awesome and their projects have been widely documented also. If you or your friends know/have participated, we could do our own Public art event. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote: > The very first line reads that WLPA will be an European wide photo > contest. Probably we should pitch in next year. > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > >> hi, >> >> WLPA 2013 seems to be a European competition for now. See this on Commons >> - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Public_Art_2013. >> >> It would be interesting to see instances of public art in India. >> >> Pradeep Mohandas >> How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 >>-- >> *From:* Arnav Sonara >> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list < >> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, 20 February 2013 8:03 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Would you >> like to be part of the international jury for WLPA? >> >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Noopur wrote: >> >> FYI. For those interested and for those who contributed to WLM, this >> might be for you. >> >> >> Thanks for sharing this. >> >> Is India participating in WLPA too? >> >> Thanks. >> >> ___ >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > Thanks and regards, > Karthik Nadar, > Secretary, 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Would you like to be part of the international jury for WLPA?
FYI. For those interested and for those who contributed to WLM, this might be for you. -- Forwarded message -- From: A V Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:58 PM Subject: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Would you like to be part of the international jury for WLPA? To: "wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org" < wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org>, John Andersson < johnandersso...@hotmail.com> Hey, Would you like to be part of the international jury for WLPA? We are looking for 4-5 jury members. We welcome people with different backgrounds and experiences (for example, photographers, Wikipedians, artists). More information about the jury's work is available here: http://wikilovespublicart.org/jury/ If you are interested please contact John or me. Tell us a bit about yourself and why you are interested. Best regards, Arild Vågen, coordinator for the international jury ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury
Dear Adethya, Adding James to the conversation because he can explain this better. Also, here is an open call that James did send out for jury volunteers on 10th February :http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikimania/333694?do=post_view_threaded#333694 As for me, I could tell you how I came on board. I was approached by Deror Avi from Israel and his rationale was to have a wider representation (people from Asia, women, some experience with organizing events). I hope that answers your question :) Best, Noopur On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:13:46 +0530, Adethya Sudarsanan wrote: > Hey Noopur, > > Can anyone be a part of the jury? is the call still open? Jus curious. > > -Ade. S > > On 18 February 2013 10:07, Noopur wrote: > >> Dear all, >> FYI. The jury list is out. Achal, Konarak and I are a part of it. There are only two bids so far. Arusha and London. >> Thanks >> Noopur >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> FROM: James Forrester >>> DATE: February 18, 2013, 5:14:09 AM GMT+05:30 >>> TO: "wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org [2]" >>> SUBJECT: [WIKIMEDIA-L] FWD: ANNOUNCEMENT OF WIKIMANIA 2014 JURY >>> REPLY-TO: Wikimedia Mailing List >> >>> All, >>> >>> For info. >>> >>> Yours, >>> >>> James. >>> >>> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: James Forrester >>> Date: 17 February 2013 15:40 >>> Subject: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury >>> To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" >>> >>> [Please note that I send this purely as a volunteer, and in no >>> connexion to the Wikimedia Foundation.] >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I write to announce the Jury to select which bid will be chosen to >>> host Wikimania in 2014. >>> >>> The twelve members will be: >>> >>> * Deror Avi - [[User:Deror avi]] from Israel (Wikimania 2011 General Manager) >>> * Philippe Beaudette - [[User:Philippe (WMF)]] from the US (Wikimedia >>> Foundation Director, Community Advocacy) >>> * Jeromy-Yu Chan - [[User:Yuyu]] from HK (Wikimania 2013 Co-ordinator-in-Chief) >>> * Shujen Chang - [[User:Shujenchang]] from HK >>> * Florence Devouard - [[User:Anthere]] from France >>> * Orsolya Gyenes - [[User:OrsolyaVirág]] from Hungary (Wikimania 2012 >>> Deputy Program Chair) >>> * James Hare - [[User:Harej]] from the US (Wikimania 2012 Co-chair) >>> * Achal Prabhala - [[User:Aprabhala]] from India - Wikimedia Advisory >>> Board member >>> * Konarak Ratnakar - [[User:Kondicherry]] from India >>> * Noopur Raval - [[User:Noopur28]] from India >>> * Manuel Schneider - [[User:80686]] from Austria (Wikimedia >>> Österreich; perpetual Wikimania organiser) >>> * [[User:Whiteghost.ink]] from Australia >>> >>> Jan-Bart de Vreede and Sam Klein (of the Wikimedia Foundation Board) >>> will also be part of the Jury, as normal. >>> >>> I and Phoebe Ayers - [[User:Phoebe]] - will be serving as moderators, >>> neutral aides for the Jury who do not vote. >>> >>> To re-iterate what we've said before, it would be lovely if this was >>> the last year we used this process, and that for 2015 onwards we could >>> create a new, community-led and more open and transparent process. >>> Some earlier discussions took place at [[m:Talk:Wikimania Advisory >>> Group]]. Please feel free to give your thoughts there. >>> >>> As a reminder, bids have two weeks (until 23:59 UTC on 3 March 2013) >>> until bidding creation closes. All cities which intend to run for the >>> bidding process should have created a page on meta and entered the >>> official list by this point. >>> >>> Thank you, and good luck to all Bids. >>> >>> Yours, >>> -- >>> James D. Forrester >>> jdforres...@gmail.com [7] >>> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) >>> >>> -- >>> James D. Forrester >>> jdforres...@gmail.com [8] >>> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) >>> >>> ___ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org [9] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l [10] >> >> ___ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury
Dear all, FYI. The jury list is out. Achal, Konarak and I are a part of it. There are only two bids so far. Arusha and London. Thanks Noopur Begin forwarded message: > From: James Forrester > Date: February 18, 2013, 5:14:09 AM GMT+05:30 > To: "wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org" > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury > Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List > > All, > > For info. > > Yours, > > James. > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: James Forrester > Date: 17 February 2013 15:40 > Subject: Announcement of Wikimania 2014 jury > To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" > > > > [Please note that I send this purely as a volunteer, and in no > connexion to the Wikimedia Foundation.] > > Dear all, > > I write to announce the Jury to select which bid will be chosen to > host Wikimania in 2014. > > The twelve members will be: > > * Deror Avi - [[User:Deror avi]] from Israel (Wikimania 2011 General Manager) > * Philippe Beaudette - [[User:Philippe (WMF)]] from the US (Wikimedia > Foundation Director, Community Advocacy) > * Jeromy-Yu Chan - [[User:Yuyu]] from HK (Wikimania 2013 > Co-ordinator-in-Chief) > * Shujen Chang - [[User:Shujenchang]] from HK > * Florence Devouard - [[User:Anthere]] from France > * Orsolya Gyenes - [[User:OrsolyaVirág]] from Hungary (Wikimania 2012 > Deputy Program Chair) > * James Hare - [[User:Harej]] from the US (Wikimania 2012 Co-chair) > * Achal Prabhala - [[User:Aprabhala]] from India - Wikimedia Advisory > Board member > * Konarak Ratnakar - [[User:Kondicherry]] from India > * Noopur Raval - [[User:Noopur28]] from India > * Manuel Schneider - [[User:80686]] from Austria (Wikimedia > Österreich; perpetual Wikimania organiser) > * [[User:Whiteghost.ink]] from Australia > > Jan-Bart de Vreede and Sam Klein (of the Wikimedia Foundation Board) > will also be part of the Jury, as normal. > > I and Phoebe Ayers - [[User:Phoebe]] - will be serving as moderators, > neutral aides for the Jury who do not vote. > > To re-iterate what we've said before, it would be lovely if this was > the last year we used this process, and that for 2015 onwards we could > create a new, community-led and more open and transparent process. > Some earlier discussions took place at [[m:Talk:Wikimania Advisory > Group]]. Please feel free to give your thoughts there. > > As a reminder, bids have two weeks (until 23:59 UTC on 3 March 2013) > until bidding creation closes. All cities which intend to run for the > bidding process should have created a page on meta and entered the > official list by this point. > > Thank you, and good luck to all Bids. > > Yours, > -- > James D. Forrester > jdforres...@gmail.com > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal > capacity) > > > -- > James D. Forrester > jdforres...@gmail.com > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal > capacity) > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-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] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain)
Dear all, I am not sure if this was forwarded to the India list but Huffington post has a guest blog post from Netha this week. Congratulations Netha! :) Best, Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: SARAH STIERCH Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:54 PM Subject: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain) To: wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org [2] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/wikipedia-towards-closing-gender-gap_b_2654019.html [3] WikiWoman Netha Hussain wrote a guest blog for Huffington Post UK * Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading * Enable Social Reading * i [4] A medical student, blogger and Wikipedian GET UPDATES FROM NETHA HUSSAIN Like 1 WIKIPEDIA: TOWARDS CLOSING THE GENDER GAP Posted: 09/02/2013 21:49 Follow Wikipedia [5], Gender Gap [6], Wikipedia Editors [7], Ada Lovelace [8], Equality [9], Open Knowledge [10],Women [11], UK Tech News [12] Submit this story Most of us know Wikipedia as the free online encyclopedia, written collaboratively by millions of volunteers from around the world. I am one [13] of those writers for the last 3 years. It was by writing articles about medical sciences that I started contributing to Wikipedia. Later, I was intrigued by the enormous volume of information available on Wikipedia, and was curious to find out who actually write them - which made me delve into the editor demographics. It really made me upset when I figured out that only around 9% [14] of the contributors to Wikipedia are women. In fact, I knew that so few women write on Wikipedia, but I hadn't expected the figure to be as low as 9 percent. Diversity of opinion is the essence of any encyclopedia. Having equal representation from women will bring in wider perspectives, and increase the neutrality of the articles on Wikipedia. With men creating most of the content for Wikipedia, certain subjects might be covered more than a subject that may be of interest to women. Women not writing on Wikipedia mean that certain subjects may not be receiving the attention they rightfully deserve. The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia, had recognized this problem sooner than I did. The Wikimedia Foundation has launched various programs to bridge the gender gap, and the latest addition to the list is the WikiWomen's Collaborative [15]. The WikiWomen's Collaborative was created in September 2012 by women around the world who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and want to encourage others to do the same. The project was aimed at helping women and transwomen to support one another and engage in programs that help the Wikimedian community to bring in new women editors. A variety of events [16], like edit-a-thons, interviews and wikiwomen parties were conducted as a part of the collaborative. In May 2012, a WikiWomenCamp [17] was organized for women in the Wikimedia movement to get together and discuss about the various issues related to being women involved in the Wikimedia community with like-minded women. Over 20 women from different countries participated in the camp to brainstorm solutions for existing problems that concern women, and suggest future plans to collaborate with one another. It is customary to conduct a WikiWomen's luncheon [18] at Wikimania [19], the global gathering of Wikimedians, exclusively for the women participants. Organizations like the Ada Initiative [20], named for the world's first programmer Countess Ada Lovelace, support women working with open knowledge projects like Wikipedia by creating resources for women in open stuff, conducting conferences and advising organizations on supporting women. Many outreach programs were conducted in women's universities all over the world to encourage students to participate in the Wikimedia movement. The Women's History month edit-a-thons conducted every year, attracts both male and female editors to write biographies of notable women on Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation has set a goal to raise the share of female contributors to 25% by 2015. Given the good response from the community to various events conducted for women, it is likely that the foundation will achieve its goal within the set time limit. If you would like to get engaged in various activities for women in Wikipedia, you are welcome to write to me [21] or join us here [22]. -- SARAH STIERCH _WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FELLOW_ >>Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today [23] Links: -- [1] mailto:sstie...@wikimedia.org [2] mailto:wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org [3] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/wikipedia-towards-closing-gender-gap_b_2654019.html [4] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain [5] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wiki
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Professional Video Production & Village Pump Proposal
Dear all, *message attached below* FYI. I do recollect there being a thread where many of us gave suggestions on what videos we should have, especially for outreach in Indian languages. It would be great if we could propose them here and someone can pick them up to make a video. Best, Noopur Original Message Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Professional Video Production & Village Pump Proposal Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:35:25 -0800 From: Victor Grigas To: Communications Committee Reply-To: Communications Committee Hello everyone on ComCom, Last year (2012) along with the fundraising team and a few contractors we interviewed 100 Wikipedians at Wikimania which resulted in an awareness campaign launched in US, UK, NZ, AU & CA: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_Allhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_Main Almost all the feedback was positive, and we learned alot. (thank you again to those on this list who were in it) This year (2013) I'm aiming to make (and help others to make) a 2 minute video that hopefully 'goes viral' and makes the world laugh, cry and learn all about Wikipedia. In order to do that I'm going to be engaging and collaborating with professional producers from all around the world and producing many videos that cover a wide range of content and style. Here is an example: Right now we have a small test running for the Valentine's Day holiday which went out in an email to several thousand U.S.-only donors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLHZUIVdPU0 Sadly, we have only so much of a budget to work with. Videos can be expensive to produce and I am but one lone dude and I don't scale. Solution!: So I'm looking for professional film/video/creative volunteers to help: If you know any video agencies or individual producers, camera operators, motion graphics artists, et cetera who like Wikipedia enough to be willing to donate their services to promote and inform the world about Wikipedia, please connect me with them. Also, since Wikipedia is open and collaborative, I thought that video collaboration should also be left open to the community, so I just wrote this on the Village Pump Idea Lab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Community-Driven_Video_Production_PortalIt is a proposal to create a forum where anyone can propose ideas that should be made into video. Those ideas can be polished and then a producer who is willing to volunteer (Wikipedian or otherwise) can read through scripts and produce the content they want to. This forum would serve video production on Wikipedia generally, not just for the work that i'm doing.Thanks for reading & I'd be happy to know your thoughts.Victor -- Victor GrigasStoryteller Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773149 New Montgomery Street 6th floorSan Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wmfcc-l mailing list wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfcc-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] Results of the Programme Director hiring for CIS's A2K programme
Dear Vishnu, Great news! Look forward to working with you :) Best, Noopur On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote: > My heartiest congratulations Vishnu! > > We all are waiting here to welcome you to the office. It would be a great > time to work with you and take this movement to a new level.. ;) > > Best! > Subha > > On 29-Jan-2013, at 1:17 AM, Jessie Wild wrote: > > Congratulations, Vishnu! We are looking forward to working with you > further. > > As a participant in the interviewing process from WMF, I wanted to extend > a _HUGE_ thank you and congratulations to CIS for conducting such an open > and extensive hiring process. They had quite the challenge before them, and > I am impressed with their commitment to transparency and collaboration > through the process. Nice work to Jadine especially for updating us all on > what was happening! > > Also, thank you to ALL OF YOU who helped in participating in the process! > Adethya Sudarsanan (volunteer), Arun Ramarathnam (Wikimedia India > representative) and Nitika Tandom (from CIS Access to Knowledge team) in > particular invested much time and energy into screening > candidates. Also, to all the community members who helped on the online > planning process: thanks for your feedback and participation. > > Finally, it would be great to gather as a community how this process went. > Perhaps we could set up a page similar to one designed in Brazil to capture > both the process and the learnings? > Let me know if you think that would be helpful; I can set up the link > unless one of you beats me to it (and please feel free to:)! > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Brazil_Program/Community_Hiring_Process > > I'm excited to see and learn from what India continues to contribute to > the movement. > > > Best, > Jessie > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Vishnu t wrote: > >> Dear Santhosh, Arnav, Niraj, Sundar, Adethya and Friends, >> >> Thank you for your wishes. I am excited to working with you all and look >> forward to your support and cooperation. >> >> Cheers, >> Vishnu >> >> >> On 28 January 2013 19:34, Adethya Sudarsanan wrote: >> >>> Welcome Home, Vishnu. Wish you a great tenure. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Adethya Sudarsanan. >>> >>> >>> On 28 January 2013 17:17, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: >>> >>>> Congrats and welcome, Vishnu Vardhan! >>>> >>>> - Sundar >>>> >>>> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a >>>> medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." >>>> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *From:* Jadine Lannon >>>> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list < >>>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>>> *Sent:* Monday, January 28, 2013 12:14 PM >>>> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Results of the Programme Director >>>> hiring for CIS's A2K programme >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I'm sorry for not including this in the original post. Here is a brief >>>> introduction to T. Vishnu Vardhan: >>>> >>>> Starting in February 2013, T. Vishnu Vardhan will be Programme Director >>>> of CIS's Access to Knowledge programme at the New Delhi office. Prior to >>>> this position, he was the Senior Development Officer for the Sir Ratan Tata >>>> Trust (SRTT), a position that he has help since 2007. His experience spans >>>> across academics, industry (media) and the not-for-profit sector. Over the >>>> last 11 years, he has worked in various capacities as a researcher, grant >>>> manager, teacher, project consultant, information architect and translator. >>>> Prior to joining CIS, Vishnu managed the Art, Crafts and Culture portfolio >>>> of the SRTT, where he spent 5 years performing project conceptualization, >>>> management and assessment of quality and impact in the not-for-profit >>>> sector. >>>> >>>> Vishnu managed more than 30 projects and funds to the tune of Rs. 160 >>>> million. He also anchored SRTT’s automation and knowledge management >>>> activities. Vishnu worked as a Research Coordinator at Centre for the >>>> Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) in Bangalore where he coordinated the >>>> online M.A. in Cultu
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [OKFN-IN] Spreading word about ODC-2, Bangalore
FYI. This might be of interest to some of you. -- Forwarded message -- From: Sridhar Gutam Date: Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:43 AM Subject: [OKFN-IN] Spreading word about ODC-2, Bangalore To: Sridhar Gutam Hey Everyone, Bangalore DataMeet is really happy to announce the 2013 Open DataCamp! We are still working on a location but it will be on March 2nd and 3rd 2013. Please refer to the following link for more information and to register: http://odc.datameet.org/odcblr2013/ I want to thank the sponsors Akshara Foundation, India Water Portal, and Google for their initial support. And also to DataMeet for helping us with the initial planning. How will this year be different from last year? Longer - 2 days - Including a Hackathon and Workshops Registration Fee of 100 rupees to cover various costs - the money from registration will stay with Do Attend and then be transferred directly to vendor to cover costs. We will not be receiving any money personally. I will be announcing the themes, speakers, tentative agenda in a few follow up emails. We will also be giving travel grants. If you want to apply please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHZlaDViNGVQbHVieVVkR01WbzF4Ymc6MQ#gid=0 Stay tuned for more details. If you want to volunteer for the event please let me know I will add you to our volunteer list. I look forward to seeing you all there! Thanks! Sridhar on behalf of Nisha and Thej ___ OKFN-IN mailing list okfn...@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-in Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-in -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad
Theo, I am not sure where this discussion is going to. Srikanth had specific questions on why the MediaWiki user group and why not a technical SIG instead. At least that's what I gather from his mail. However you seem to be asking why a MediaWiki user group at all. For this you will need to rewind to previous mailing list threads where community members, oblivious to any possibility of such MediaWiki groups had expressed the desire to have some kind of a technical collaborative. In fact on this thread itself, I remember a response on the chapter list informing people whom this could interest. The mailing list objections don't quite make sense to me. Nor do the arguments about dead groups. That is the nature of volunteer communities perhaps. People were informed about this proposal on all lists precisely due to te absence of an existing tech list. I personally don't see why there needs to be any justification to start a collaborative group as long as it is not pulling on precious resources. If enthusiastic volunteers of Ahmedabad wish to call themselves MediaWiki group Ahmedabad and have already localized gadgets and think that formalizing would attract more like minded local users, I don't see any harm. Did you see the mini hackathon post and the announcement for all interested members to have a chat with Sumana? Did you also see sucheta and pratik's initiatives in the same vein? Wouldn't it be unfair to term this as an absolute staff initiative and undermine their effort? Best, Noopur On Jan 3, 2013, at 10:07 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > Hi Yuvi > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: >> This happened on IRC over a few hours, between me, quim and harsh. Most of >> the conversation was quim convincing me that a mediawiki-india list would be >> a much better Idea than a MediaWiki India User Group (which he succeeded >> in), and Harsh volunteering to start the Ahmedabad one. The logging bot has >> been wonky, so no logs. > > So, to summarize again, Quim, a staff member, and you, a contractor/staff > member had a discussion with harsh - I don't know harsh so please forgo any > mistaken assumption on my part, had a discussion on IRC, and between the > three, it was decided, if a group would be a better option to a list. > Unfortunately, there are no logs to even prove the above discussion, which > would brig me to reiterate what I said earlier, now confirmed with the > explanation above. For the time being, I stand by what I said. > >> >> As for 'why User Groups, why not a SIG' - the User Group idea is neither >> unique nor novel - it is a very well understood concept. Linux User Groups, >> Python User Groups, Ruby User Groups, Java User Groups, etc abound on >> per-city levels. This is just another user group for a piece of open source >> software. MediaWiki does not run just Wikipedia, but is also (IIRC) the most >> popular software used for standalone wikis. Plenty of projects that use >> MediaWiki have nothing to do with the Wikimedia movement (An experiment with >> using Semantic MediaWiki for Public Transit routing a bunch of us tried a >> few years ago, the w3c wiki (w3.org/wiki), lots of internal company's >> documentation wikis, lots of open source software wikis, etc). > > Hmm I have no idea about these user groups, or what levels of formalization > they do have, so I'll take your word for it. What I do know is the concept of > Wikimedia User groups is a new territory for us, the first group using this > approach is being led by the staff, as I said earlier. > > Second, MediaWiki *is* independent and might have nothing to do with > Wikimedia. But then again, why are we on a list of Wikimedia asking > Wikipedians to join or create the said group? To the extent of my knowledge, > Mediawiki is a platform, a piece of software, in terms of real world > implications it has no existence. Which would then lead the discussion back > in to the circle, that went on the tech list about a MediaWiki foundation and > an independent identity, because clearly that's the problem we have right now > - shortage of committees, and groups and organizations to conflate a bunch of > stuff rather than the actual work they are supposed to do. > > The simplest question is what would this achieve? Let's say there is a group > or a list, what then? would the work materialize that so far has not? or > would we be left with dead organizations in a year or two that will continue > to carry the Wikimedia or Mediawiki name till someone realizes the exposure > of proliferating these. I can point you to 2 dozen dead lists with no > activities, in order to get wider participation they forwa
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad
The same question could be asked of any collective with a Wikipedia related goal. However, it could also be asked if in the Wikiverse (which supremely thrives on the value of collaborative work), it is inappropriate or redundant to form new collaboratives (like MediaWiki group or other specific focus groups) that are outside the purview of chapters or the Foundation for that matter. My hunch is that the formation of such any formal/informal group of this nature is welcome as long as it does not enter into trademark conflicts with existing entities. However, it beats me why there would be a need to consolidate a new collective within a chapter if there is no apparent need indicated by the group itself. I am just wondering whether the ideal approach would be to propose the nature of support that the chapter can extend in stead of wondering why the group has not been merged or started by/within chapter members. This would probably also mislead enthusiastic Indian Wikipedians who are not chapter members to understand that they must streamline all their activities with existing formal entities. Best, Noopur On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > Noopur, > Thank you for your response, > However, you still haven't answered my question on what benefit a User > Group has over Chapter SIG. > The Chapter was set up to help promote and streamline Wikimedia related > activities in India. > We have been asked by affcom and your response would greatly help us > understand why direct affiliation is really necessary. > It is more important to see what the long term benefits of this would be > rather than to just create it because the option exists. > -- > > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Noopur wrote: > >> Hey Srikanth, >> >> Just weighing in since I also happen to be supporting this process. >> Perhaps a little background is necessary to know why MediaWiki groups have >> been started as an initiative. Also copying Quim since he might be able to >> shed more light on this issue. As I understand from the proposal page, this >> is a part of the new direction taken by the Foundation since the "narrowed >> focus..." It was suggested that more impetus be given to help build and >> support technical volunteer groups just like all cities and countries have >> their Wikipedia, Commons and other communities of interested volunteers. >> I am also witness to an IRC conversation where possibilities of setting >> up local groups versus national were considered. As the highlighted in the >> discussion, I believe that it would be best for volunteers to work in local >> proximal groups (like MediaWiki group - Ahmedabad for instance) also with a >> language focus possibly (like several gadgets have been added to Gujarati >> Wikipedia as a run up to the group and so on). I believe the MediaWiki >> India mailing list which hopes to link up communities across the country is >> up and running now. As far as I understand forming specific interest groups >> doesn't require a formal identity or does not encroach upon other parallel >> entities' activities or privileges. >> >> Just trying to fill the gaps since you might not have the background on >> MediaWiki groups conversations. Maybe Quim can correct me if I a mistaken. >> >> Best, >> Noopur >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < >> srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote: >> >>> Hi Harsh, >>> I have a few questions. >>> Was there any specific reason to go for a Separate MW Group? Is it due >>> to legal/trademark issues or funding? >>> I'm sure that those two could be sorted if it were taken up by the >>> Chapter similar to an SIG model. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Harsh Kothari < >>> harshkothari...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> *Dear friends, >>>> >>>> This is to inform you all about the creation of the first MediaWiki >>>> group in India. For the past several days, I’ve been speaking to Quim Gil, >>>> Sumana and Yuvi Panda. I was informed about the setting up of local groups >>>> in different countries for technical contributors. With encouragement from >>>> all of them and with help from Noopur I submitted a proposal for the >>>> formation of MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad. This proposal has been endorsed by >>>> 7 people so far. >>>> >>>> For those who might be interested in setting up similar groups, I think >>>> a Wikitech mailing list for India is being set up a
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad
Hey Srikanth, Just weighing in since I also happen to be supporting this process. Perhaps a little background is necessary to know why MediaWiki groups have been started as an initiative. Also copying Quim since he might be able to shed more light on this issue. As I understand from the proposal page, this is a part of the new direction taken by the Foundation since the "narrowed focus..." It was suggested that more impetus be given to help build and support technical volunteer groups just like all cities and countries have their Wikipedia, Commons and other communities of interested volunteers. I am also witness to an IRC conversation where possibilities of setting up local groups versus national were considered. As the highlighted in the discussion, I believe that it would be best for volunteers to work in local proximal groups (like MediaWiki group - Ahmedabad for instance) also with a language focus possibly (like several gadgets have been added to Gujarati Wikipedia as a run up to the group and so on). I believe the MediaWiki India mailing list which hopes to link up communities across the country is up and running now. As far as I understand forming specific interest groups doesn't require a formal identity or does not encroach upon other parallel entities' activities or privileges. Just trying to fill the gaps since you might not have the background on MediaWiki groups conversations. Maybe Quim can correct me if I a mistaken. Best, Noopur On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > Hi Harsh, > I have a few questions. > Was there any specific reason to go for a Separate MW Group? Is it due to > legal/trademark issues or funding? > I'm sure that those two could be sorted if it were taken up by the Chapter > similar to an SIG model. > > > > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Harsh Kothari > wrote: > >> *Dear friends, >> >> This is to inform you all about the creation of the first MediaWiki group >> in India. For the past several days, I’ve been speaking to Quim Gil, Sumana >> and Yuvi Panda. I was informed about the setting up of local groups in >> different countries for technical contributors. With encouragement from all >> of them and with help from Noopur I submitted a proposal for the formation >> of MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad. This proposal has been endorsed by 7 people >> so far. >> >> For those who might be interested in setting up similar groups, I think a >> Wikitech mailing list for India is being set up and personally, I would be >> happy to help you write a proposal for your community. I think it’s a great >> idea because with the help of this technical group we intend to make good >> technical infrastructure and editing environment for Gujarati Wikipedia >> easier to contribute to. >> >> I have already ported HotCat and Popups(on the way) on Gujarati >> Wikipedia. Please have a look at the areas we want to collaborate on: >> >> Areas of collaboration: >> >>- Localize Gadgets for Gujarati Wikipedia and Wikisource >>- Create New Gadgets and extensions >>- Bug solving for Gujarati Wikipedia and WikiSource and also other >>MediaWiki related Bug solving for all Indian languages >>- Translate into Gujarati Language, i.e http://translatewiki.net/ >>- Wikidata >> >> >> >> You can read the proposal here: >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Ahmedabad >> >> Your endorsements, improvements and feedback are welcome at the wiki >> page. Thank you! >> >> Harsh Kothari >> >> PS: see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals >> >> * >> --- >> Harsh Kothari >> Research Fellow, >> Physical Research Laboratory(PRL). >> Ahmedabad. >> >> >> >> ___ >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > Srikanth Ramakrishnan > Member of the Executive Committee > Wikimedia Chapter [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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] [A2K]: Workshop at SRM University and meet up
Correction: Time: 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm (flexible) On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:37:13 +0500, noopur wrote: > Dear all, > > Metawings, an organization that holds soft skills training workshops for students across colleges in India has offered us a day to hold a _free _Wikipedia workshop on 17th December at SRM University near Chenna. Over 60 students have registered so far. Here are the details of the event: > > VENUE: SRM University, Kattankulathur Campus, Kanchipuram District, Tamilnadu- 603203 > > DATE AND TIME: 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 17th Dec, 2012 > > I will be conducting the workshop. Of course, everyone from the community is welcome to join in! Please do reply with your suggestions for the event. > > After this workshop, I would be going over to IIT, Madras to meet a bunch of students who have been editing and want to informally meet up and see what they can do around Wikipedia in their college. Yuvi would be joining me for both. > > Thank you, > > Best > > Noopur Raval, > > Programme Officer, > > Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore > > http://cis-india.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] [A2K]: Workshop at SRM University and meet up
Dear all, Metawings, an organization that holds soft skills training workshops for students across colleges in India has offered us a day to hold a _free _Wikipedia workshop on 17th December at SRM University near Chenna. Over 60 students have registered so far. Here are the details of the event: VENUE: SRM University, Kattankulathur Campus, Kanchipuram District, Tamilnadu- 603203 DATE AND TIME: 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm, 17th Dec, 2012 I will be conducting the workshop. Of course, everyone from the community is welcome to join in! Please do reply with your suggestions for the event. After this workshop, I would be going over to IIT, Madras to meet a bunch of students who have been editing and want to informally meet up and see what they can do around Wikipedia in their college. Yuvi would be joining me for both. Thank you, Best Noopur Raval, Programme Officer, Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore http://cis-india.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] Live streaming of Erik Moeller's talk
Dear all, The talk by Erik Moeller on the state of tech in Wikipedia at CIS office in Bangalore will be live streamed here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hasgeek Thank you, Noopur ___ 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] [A2K]: Access to Knowledge Bulletin – October 2012
Apologies for replying from my personal e-mail ID, still in the process of sending mails from the other. :) On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Noopur wrote: > Dear Dhavalbhai, > > These are the events where CIS members have provided partnerships/active > support in organizing the events and not just the ones they might have > attended. This list does not include the events conducted by volunteers > where CIS members only attended the event. > > Thank you, > Best > Noopur > > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > >> Hi Noopur/All, >> >> Festive greetings! >> >> Are these events/programs carried out by CIS? Or they include the ones >> organised by volunteers and attended by CIS staff as volunteers? >> >> Regards, >> Dhaval >> On 9 Nov 2012 09:03, "noopur" wrote: >> >>> ** >>> >>> Greetings! >>> >>> Welcome to the October 2012 Wikipedia newsletter from the Access to >>> Knowledge <http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan>team >>> of the Centre for Internet & Society! >>> >>> # Education Program Updates >>> >>>- Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati >>> >>> University<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-program>(by >>> Nitika Tandon, October 22, 2012). >>>- Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October >>> Updates<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/malayalam-wikipedia-education-program-august-october-update>(by >>> Shiju Alex, October 29, 2012). >>>- Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: >>> Rajkot<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-education-program-rajkot>(by >>> Noopur Raval, October 31, 2012). >>>- Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, >>>20 articles on Gujarati >>> Wikipedia<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-article-competition>(by >>> Noopur Raval, October 31, 2012). >>> >>> # Workshop Reports >>> >>>- Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other >>>Wikimedia >>> projects!<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bengaluru-a-hub-for-kannada-and-sanskrit-wikipedia>(by >>> Subhashish Panigrahi, October 16, 2012). >>>- Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, >>> Ghaziabad<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-ghaziabad>(by >>> Nitika Tandon, October 19, 2012). >>>- Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with >>>Success!<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wiki-women-day-2012-pune>(by >>> Subhashish Panigrahi, PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam >>>Campus, Pune, October 28, 2012). >>>- First Pune Odia Wikipedia >>> Organized!<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-pune-odia-wikipedia-organized>(by >>> Subhashish Panigrahi, October 31, 2012). >>> >>> # Event Organised >>> >>>- Wikipedia Hackathon at >>> BITS<http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad>Hyderabad >>> (organized by CIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, October >>>26 – 27, 2012). >>> >>> # Press Coverage >>> >>>- Odisha: Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in Pune to promote Odia >>>language >>> <http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowEvents.asp?id=37463>(OdishaDiary.com, >>> October 31, 2012). >>> >>> # Team Updates >>> >>>- The A2K >>> team<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team>consists of >>> three members based in Delhi: Nitika >>>Tandon <http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team>, Subhashish >>>Panigrahi <http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team> and Noopur >>>Raval <http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team>. >>>- We are seeking applications for the post of Programme >>> Director<http://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-programme-director>(Access >>> to Knowledge) for New Delhi office. >>>- Shiju Alex <http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team>, Programme >>>Manager, Access to Knowledge is leaving the organisation. November 16, >>> 2012 >>>will be his last working day. We wish him success in all his future >>>endeavours. >>> >>> About CIS <http://cis-india.org/>
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Access to Knowledge Bulletin – October 2012
Dear Dhavalbhai, These are the events where CIS members have provided partnerships/active support in organizing the events and not just the ones they might have attended. This list does not include the events conducted by volunteers where CIS members only attended the event. Thank you, Best Noopur On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > Hi Noopur/All, > > Festive greetings! > > Are these events/programs carried out by CIS? Or they include the ones > organised by volunteers and attended by CIS staff as volunteers? > > Regards, > Dhaval > On 9 Nov 2012 09:03, "noopur" wrote: > >> ** >> >> Greetings! >> >> Welcome to the October 2012 Wikipedia newsletter from the Access to >> Knowledge <http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan>team of >> the Centre for Internet & Society! >> >> # Education Program Updates >> >>- Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati >> >> University<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-program>(by >> Nitika Tandon, October 22, 2012). >>- Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October >> Updates<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/malayalam-wikipedia-education-program-august-october-update>(by >> Shiju Alex, October 29, 2012). >>- Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: >> Rajkot<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-education-program-rajkot>(by >> Noopur Raval, October 31, 2012). >> - Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition – 10 schools, 200 students, >>20 articles on Gujarati >> Wikipedia<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-article-competition>(by >> Noopur Raval, October 31, 2012). >> >> # Workshop Reports >> >>- Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other >>Wikimedia >> projects!<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bengaluru-a-hub-for-kannada-and-sanskrit-wikipedia>(by >> Subhashish Panigrahi, October 16, 2012). >>- Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, >> Ghaziabad<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-ghaziabad>(by >> Nitika Tandon, October 19, 2012). >>- Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with >>Success! <http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wiki-women-day-2012-pune>(by >> Subhashish Panigrahi, PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam >>Campus, Pune, October 28, 2012). >>- First Pune Odia Wikipedia >> Organized!<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-pune-odia-wikipedia-organized>(by >> Subhashish Panigrahi, October 31, 2012). >> >> # Event Organised >> >>- Wikipedia Hackathon at >> BITS<http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad>Hyderabad >> (organized by CIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, October >>26 – 27, 2012). >> >> # Press Coverage >> >>- Odisha: Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in Pune to promote Odia >>language >> <http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowEvents.asp?id=37463>(OdishaDiary.com, >> October 31, 2012). >> >> # Team Updates >> >>- The A2K >> team<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team>consists of >> three members based in Delhi: Nitika >>Tandon <http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team>, Subhashish >>Panigrahi <http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team> and Noopur >>Raval <http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team>. >>- We are seeking applications for the post of Programme >> Director<http://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-programme-director>(Access to >> Knowledge) for New Delhi office. >>- Shiju Alex <http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team>, Programme >>Manager, Access to Knowledge is leaving the organisation. November 16, >> 2012 >>will be his last working day. We wish him success in all his future >>endeavours. >> >> About CIS <http://cis-india.org/> >> CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, >> non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research >> programmes such as Accessibility <http://cis-india.org/accessibility>, Access >> to Knowledge <http://cis-india.org/a2k>, >> Openness<http://cis-india.org/openness>, >> Internet Governance <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance>, and >> Telecom <http://cis-india.org/telecom>. >> >> *CIS is grateful
[Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Access to Knowledge Bulletin – October 2012
Greetings! Welcome to the October 2012 Wikipedia newsletter from the Access to Knowledge [1] team of the Centre for Internet & Society! # Education Program Updates * Launch of Assamese Wikipedia Education Program at Guwahati University [2] (by Nitika Tandon, October 22, 2012). * Malayalam Wikipedia Education Program: August to October Updates [3] (by Shiju Alex, October 29, 2012). * Gujarat Wikipedia Education Program: Rajkot [4] (by Noopur Raval, October 31, 2012). * Gujarati Wikipedia Article Competition - 10 schools, 200 students, 20 articles on Gujarati Wikipedia [5] (by Noopur Raval, October 31, 2012). # Workshop Reports * Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects! [6] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, October 16, 2012). * Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad [7] (by Nitika Tandon, October 19, 2012). * Bridging Gender Gap in Pune: WikiWomenDay 2012 Celebrated with Success! [8] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, PAI International Learning Solutions, Azam Campus, Pune, October 28, 2012). * First Pune Odia Wikipedia Organized! [9] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, October 31, 2012). # Event Organised * Wikipedia Hackathon at BITS [10] Hyderabad (organized by CIS - A2K team and BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad, October 26 - 27, 2012). # Press Coverage * Odisha: Odia Wikipedia workshop organized in Pune to promote Odia language [11] (OdishaDiary.com, October 31, 2012). # Team Updates * The A2K team [12] consists of three members based in Delhi: Nitika Tandon [13], Subhashish Panigrahi [14] and Noopur Raval [15]. * We are seeking applications for the post of Programme Director [16] (Access to Knowledge) for New Delhi office. * Shiju Alex [17], Programme Manager, Access to Knowledge is leaving the organisation. November 16, 2012 will be his last working day. We wish him success in all his future endeavours. About CIS [18] CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in 2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs different policy research programmes such as Accessibility [19], Access to Knowledge [20], Openness [21], Internet Governance [22], and Telecom [23]. _CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari, philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for most of its projects._ FOLLOW US ELSEWHERE * Get short, timely messages from us on Twitter [24] * Join the CIS group on Facebook [25] * Visit us at http://cis-india.org [26] Best, Noopur Raval Programme Officer, Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore http://cis-india.org/ Links: -- [1] http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan [2] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-program [3] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/malayalam-wikipedia-education-program-august-october-update [4] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-education-program-rajkot [5] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-article-competition [6] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bengaluru-a-hub-for-kannada-and-sanskrit-wikipedia [7] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-ghaziabad [8] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wiki-women-day-2012-pune [9] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/first-pune-odia-wikipedia-organized [10] http://cis-india.org/openness/events/wikipedia-hackathon-bits-hyderabad [11] http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowEvents.asp?id=37463 [12] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team [13] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [14] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [15] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [16] http://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-programme-director [17] http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team [18] http://cis-india.org/ [19] http://cis-india.org/accessibility [20] http://cis-india.org/a2k [21] http://cis-india.org/openness [22] http://cis-india.org/internet-governance [23] http://cis-india.org/telecom [24] https://twitter.com/cis_india [25] http://www.facebook.com/groups/28535315687/ [26] http://cis-india.org/about/ ___ 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] [A2K]: Blog updates on recent Wikipedia events
Dear all, Here are a few blog post updates on the recent events, education program workshops as well as the Access to Knowledge program plan. Please do have a look and post your feedback on how we could do things better! All Wikipedia - Access to Knowledge posts are filed here: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog Recent updates: # Launch of the Assamese Wikipedia education program: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-program # Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-ghaziabad # Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bengaluru-a-substratum-to-kannada-and-sanskrit-wikipedia # Access to Knowledge program plan: http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan Thank you, Best Noopur Raval ___ 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: [A2K]: Bulletin - September '12
Sending again. Just FYI
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SUBJECT:
[A2K]: Bulletin - September '12
DATE:
Tue, 23 Oct
2012 12:13:55 +0500
FROM:
noopur
TO:
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Dear all,
Here is the September bulletin with updates from
the Access to Knowledge programme supported by a grant from the
Wikimedia Foundation.
Beginning from September 1, 2012, Wikimedia
Foundation has awarded CIS a two-year grant of upto INR 26,000,000 to
support and develop free knowledge in India:
# Access to Knowledge
Programme [1]
* The Wikimedia Foundation's India Program has become
the Access to Knowledge (A2K) programme of CIS.
# CIS Office in Delhi
* The A2K team [2] consists of four members: Nitika Tandon [3],
Shiju Alex [4], Subhashish Panigrahi [5] and Noopur Raval [6].
#
Statistical Report
* Indic Language Wikipedias - Statistical Report
[7] (January - June 2012) (by Shiju Alex). The data for this report and
analysis are based on the statistical data published at
http://stats.wikimedia.org [8].
# Wikipedia Workshops
NOTE: Although
most of these workshops were conducted prior to the grant period, the
reports for all of these were written during September, hence we are
featuring these:
* The First Punjabi Wikipedia Workshop [9] (by
Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012).
* Punjabi
Wikipedia Workshop at Punjabi University, Patiala [10] (by Shiju Alex
and Subhashish Panigrahi, September 28, 2012).
* Punjabi Wikipedia
Workshop at Amritsar [11] (by Shiju Alex and Subhashish Panigrahi,
September 30, 2012).
* Wikipedia Workshop in British Library,
Chandigarh [12] (by Subhashish Panigrahi, September 27, 2012).
*
Kannada Wiki Workshop at Tumkur University [13] (Tumkur, Karnataka,
September 15, 2012).
* Wikipedia comes to Hyderabad! [14] (by Noopur
Raval, September 30, 2012). There was coverage in the Hindu [15] on
September 28, 2012.
# Blog Entry
* Editor Growth & Contribution
Program on Telugu Wikipedia [16] (by Nitika Tandon, September 29,
2012).
About CIS [17]
CIS was registered as a society in Bangalore in
2008. As an independent, non-profit research organisation, it runs
different policy research programmes such as Accessibility [18], Access
to Knowledge [19], Openness [20], Internet Governance [21], and Telecom
[22].
_CIS is grateful to its donors, Wikimedia Foundation, Ford
Foundation, Privacy International, UK, Hans Foundation and the Kusuma
Trust which was founded by Anurag Dikshit and Soma Pujari,
philanthropists of Indian origin, for its core funding and support for
most of its projects._
FOLLOW US ELSEWHERE
* Get short, timely
messages from us on Twitter [23]
* Join the CIS group on Facebook
[24]
* Visit us at http://cis-india.org [25]
Thanks & Regards
Noopur
Raval
Consultant - Communications
Access to Knowledge Team,
The Centre
for Internet & Society,
G 15, Top floor
Behind Hauz Khas, G Block
Market
Hauz Khas,
New Delhi 110016
Ph: + 91 11 26536425
Links:
--
[1]
http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_To_Knowledge/Team
[3]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[4]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[5]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[6]
http://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team
[7]
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Access to Knowledge team calendar
Dear Nikhil, That's a great suggestion! In fact while making this calendar, I was asking around if there are better options (almost Wiki format calendars) so that we have more functionality. I will try out this crowdmap :) Best Noopur On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Nikhil Sheth wrote: > Hi, > > This is good. > A raw suggestion: > I've recently come across a crowd-sourcing solution called crowdmap. > Though it's primarily for crowd-sourcing geographical info, when you submit > a location you can choose a date and time in the future there. > > So, a calendar on this would have a time-slider plus show the locations of > events on a map. That would also help people in seeing by location. > Sample : http://treasuresofahmedabad.crowdmap.com > > (ignore the security warning.. they're having a temporary issue with the > web certificates > > Cheers, > Nikhil Sheth > +91-966-583-1250 > Pune, India > http://www.nikhilsheth.tk > http://www.facebook.com/nikjs > > > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Noopur wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> As announced earlier, the Access to Knowledge team (previously the India >> Program team) started working with a few alterations in September. In a >> move to make things more transparent and ensure better communication across >> communities as well as draw more participation to all our events, we've >> created a public calendar. >> >> Right now, there is no way in which I can make the calendar edit-able by >> all but if there are events you want to list, I'd be glad to list them. >> >> Link to the calendar: http://bitly.com/a2kcalendar >> >> Please do reply with your suggestions on how we can make this calendar >> more efficient. >> >> Thank you, >> Best >> Noopur >> >> ___ >> 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] [A2K]: Access to Knowledge team calendar
Sure, Jessie! Will add that info to all events. Thanks :) On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Jessie Wild wrote: > Thanks Noopur, this is great! > > It might be helpful to include in the events themselves WHO from the A2K > team will be present (so that people know who to reach out to with > questions) and also a link to the organizing page, if applicable. > > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Noopur wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> As announced earlier, the Access to Knowledge team (previously the India >> Program team) started working with a few alterations in September. In a >> move to make things more transparent and ensure better communication across >> communities as well as draw more participation to all our events, we've >> created a public calendar. >> >> Right now, there is no way in which I can make the calendar edit-able by >> all but if there are events you want to list, I'd be glad to list them. >> >> Link to the calendar: http://bitly.com/a2kcalendar >> >> Please do reply with your suggestions on how we can make this calendar >> more efficient. >> >> Thank you, >> Best >> Noopur >> >> ___ >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > *Jessie Wild > Global Development, Senior Manager > Wikimedia Foundation* > * > * > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in > the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > Donate to Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] [A2K]: Access to Knowledge team calendar
Dear all, As announced earlier, the Access to Knowledge team (previously the India Program team) started working with a few alterations in September. In a move to make things more transparent and ensure better communication across communities as well as draw more participation to all our events, we've created a public calendar. Right now, there is no way in which I can make the calendar edit-able by all but if there are events you want to list, I'd be glad to list them. Link to the calendar: http://bitly.com/a2kcalendar Please do reply with your suggestions on how we can make this calendar more efficient. Thank you, Best Noopur ___ 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-in-hyd] 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad
Odia Wikipedians meeting up in Hyderabad tomorrow (29th). This news has also been covered by The Hindu and TOI today. Do come if you are around :) -- Forwarded message -- From: swetapadma d. satpathy Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:32 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi All, I am happy to inform you that the 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad is being scheduled on 29th October,12 at 4PM in Lamakaan, Banjara Hill. The objective of the workshop is to learn and know more about Odia Wikipedia. Till now there are 3000 Odia articles available in Odia Wikipedia. In a view to consolidate the knowledge and in depth experience of participants /fellow wikipedians through discussion and live demonstration of searching, writing and editing an article in Odia language, the workshop has been planned. This shall definitely encourage participants to create and develop articles for Odia wikipedia.This is an open event for all who can read and write Odia. Best Wishes, Swetapadma Satpathy ___ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd -- Noopur Raval ___ 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: The Sunday meet-up
Please do attend the Hyderabad meet up if you are in the city on 30th! -- Forwarded message -- From: Tausif Rahmathullah Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM Subject: The Sunday meet-up To: wikimedia-in-hyd Cc: Noopur Raval Folks, A mild reminder of the our *meet-up* on *Sunday 30th September*. Amidst a few confusions about postponing and things, we have all agreed upon moving forward with the event without any change. Incidentally, our meet-up has been mention in The Hindu and The Times of India. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-session/article3943855.ece *Where* LaMakaan, In lane Adjacent to CBay, Opposite GVKOne Road No 1, Banjara Hills Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh *When* Sunday 30th September,2012 11 AM to 1 PM For any info, you can call Tausif at 9885474156 Abhijit at 9866898311 See you all this Sunday! Regards, *Tausif* -- Noopur Raval ___ 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: New Wiki Education newsletter
*FYI. For those interested in following up on Education Program news, here's the link to 'This Month in Education'. Thanks for sharing this OmShivaprakash and Naveen! * -- Forwarded message -- From: omshivaprak...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:27 PM Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] WMIN -- Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] new wiki Education newsletter To: Kannada Wikipedia Discussion List -- Forwarded message -- From: Naveen Francis Date: Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:16 PM Subject: [WMIN-Members] WMIN -- Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] new wiki Education newsletter To: wmin-members for all who are interested in education program http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Newsletter Thanks, naveenpf -- Forwarded message -- From: Leigh Thelmadatter Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:58 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] new wiki Education newsletter To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org One of the things discussed during Wikimania was the need for a newsletter that will allow us already working with Wikipedia a chance to share ideas easily. Today is the official "publication" of the This Month in Education wiki-newsletter. http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Newsletter This is only only easy to find, but easy to contribute to with the "Newsroom" link. Final versions are announced each month (published) and email reminders will be sent on this list and to anyone who requests it. Please enjoy reading what is happening in various parts of the world and we happily accept contributions for the 15 September newsletter! ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en -- -- With Best Regards, Omshivaprakash.H.L | ಓಂ ಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್. ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल् http://platonic.techfiz.info http://blog.shivu.in Phone: 91- 9902026518 linuxaayana.net | kindarajogi.com | sanchaya.net ___ Wikikn-l mailing list wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l -- Noopur Raval ___ 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: [Wikipedia-gu] Fwd: Gujarati ane Computer: 17th August
*FYI. *Kartik Mistry, Konarak and Harsh, three Gujarati Wikipedians speaking at the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad workshop on Gujarati and computers. They will be covering a number of topics including Gujarati typing and Wikipedia. Please spread the word and do attend if you are in Ahmedabad. Thanks for posting this Dhaval! Best, Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: Dhaval S. Vyas Date: 2012/8/13 Subject: [Wikipedia-gu] Fwd: Gujarati ane Computer: 17th August To: Wikipedia Gujarati , Wikimedia Ahmedabad Hi All, FYI! Please also circulate among your family and frieds, later on in the series, Wikipedia is going to be covered as well. Kind Regards, Dhaval -- Forwarded message -- From: Gujarati Sahitya Parishad Gujarati and Computer - an opportunity Dear Sir/madam Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and GujaratiLexicon have jointly organised a workshop on "Gujarati and Computer", which will start on 17th August. Below link has details of the topics. ગુજરાતી ભાષા અને કમ્પ્યૂટર સજ્જતા - એક તક ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ અને ગુજરાતીલેક્સિકોનના સંયુકત ઉપક્રમે સાહિત્યકારો, લેખકો, પત્રકારો, અધ્યાપકો, શિક્ષકો, સાહિત્યરસિકો, ભાષાપ્રેમીઓ તથા વિદ્યાર્થીઓ માટે ગુજરાતી ભાષા-કમ્પ્યૂટરની અભિમુખતા માટે એક કાર્યશાળાનું નિ:શુલ્ક આયોજન થયું છે. જેના પ્રથમ સત્રની શરૂઆત તા ૧૭-૮-૨૦૧૨ને શુક્રવારથી થઈ રહી છે. આ અંગેની વધુ માહિતી આપ આ લીન્કમાંથી મેળવી શકો છો. http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/newsletter/index.html આ કાર્યશાળામાં આપ જોડાવ તેવી અપેક્ષા છે. -- ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ "ગોવર્ધનભવન", આશ્રમમાર્ગ, 'ટાઈમ્સ'ની પાછળ, નદીકિનારે, અમદાવાદ ૩૮૦૦૦૯ http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/ http://gujaratisahityaparishad.org/ ___ Wikipedia-gu mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Wikimania]: India - Nepal community meet up
Dear Sankarshan, The best people to speak to regarding this, as I have mentioned, would be Viswa Prabha, Dr Rajasekhar and Ganesh. If you can write to me offlist, I can connect you with them. Best, Noopur On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:47 PM, sankarshan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Noopur Raval > wrote: > > > OCR for Indic languages: > > Kul, Viswa Prabha, Dr Rajasekhar and Ganesh from the Nepali community had > > discussions on whether OCR could be integrated and functional for Indic > > language Wikiprojects since that would make the work a lot easier for > many > > editors. Viswa Prabha is currently working on something and his energy is > > really infectious. :-) > > Could you provide more details on this ? > > -- > 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 > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Wikimania]: India - Nepal community meet up
Apologies for the picture attachment. Here's the blog post link: http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/08/06/wikimania-2012-india-nepal-community-meet-up/ Thank you, Best, Noopur On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Noopur Raval wrote: > Dear all, > > While at Wikimania, we all had a small India - Nepal team meet up. Here is > a brief summary of what we discussed. All the Indian and Nepali Wikimedians > were enthusiastically gathered by Malayalee Wikipedian Viswa Prabha in the > ballroom at Wikimania. > > Since it was an informal meet up, we had the opportunity to discuss > anything and everything! It was awesome to see Wikipedians of all ages, > from various places in India and Nepal, all coming together to discuss the > stuff they were doing! Actually, the first team meet happened on the plane > itself - somewhere above Russia I was told :-) > > From mobile to Indic languages, GLAM, outreach in states of India, OCR for > Indian languages to some ideas that could make communication between > communities and entities easier as well as IEP, we truly learned the best > practices that have been tried and tested by fellow community members. > > *OCR for Indic languages:* > Kul, Viswa Prabha, Dr Rajasekhar and Ganesh from the Nepali community had > discussions on whether OCR could be integrated and functional for Indic > language Wikiprojects since that would make the work a lot easier for many > editors. Viswa Prabha is currently working on something and his energy is > really infectious. :-) > Anyone interested can take lead for their communities as well. This would > also help the Malayalam education program in its next phase to get more > student editors on Wikisource. > > *Reviving Offline/CD project:* > Harriet, who has been involved with OLPC was also present and asked > questions about the offline/CD initiative and whether the project had an > India specific section. It was suggested that although there is no scalable > tech solution to filter content appropriate for children depending on their > age groups, it could be done manually depending on the age group we're > looking at. > > *Announcement page:* > By this time we all agreed that there are so many small and big projects > are happening across communities! Bishakha suggested there should be a more > central place to list out new announcements and more importantly contact > details of people who can help out with various activities. This could be > done on Meta ideally. > * > Using social media to keep vandals at bay!* > There was a brief discussion on how social media can be utilized more > effectively. Viswa Prabha weighed in saying how these social network > platforms could be avenues to deal with vandalism as well as diverse > discussions while keeping Wikipedia related discussions focused on talk > pages. > > *GLAM national coordinator:* > Wikimania had a panel discussion on GLAM coordinators following which it > was also discussed whether India community or chapter should have such a > position in order to guide and coordinate and help out new folks who want > to start GLAM projects. Similarly, for WLM or such photo events, I do > recall there being a talk for valid press cards that could be given to SIGs > to help folks out in case of police trouble. > * > Outreach:* > > Last but not the least, Yuvi suggested how hackathons could be an > excellent way of outreach (citing the Bangalore and Chennai examples). > Nitika also gave an update on the British Council Wikiclubs. > User:Rangilo_Gujarati who was also present there has volunteered to help > with the British Council in Pune. > > It was heartbreaking to see that a lot of our fellow members could not > make it due to visa problems but hopefully, we'll have bigger meetups soon! > Attaching a photo of the meetup (photo curtsy: Rangilo_Gujarati) and a > special mention to Viswa Prabha for winning the Raffles! > > Thank you, > Best, > Noopur > > > -- > Noopur Raval -- Noopur Raval ___ 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: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team
Sweet! Welcome aboard Logic :-) Look forward to working with you! Congratulations. Best, Noopur On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Thank you Sir! > > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Ashwin Baindur > wrote: > >> Arun, right on! Srikanth, welcome to your new hunting ground! >> >> Ashwin >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Arun Ganesh wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan >> > wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you all for you wishes. I look forward to working with you and >>>> making your language wikipedia experience better. Please feel free to poke >>>> me on any bugs you file for your wiki projects. >>>> >>>> To avoid people complaining of bombing inbox, please send your wishes >>>> sent to me excluding the list. :) >>>> >>> Nonsense! complaints are an integral part of these lists. Welcome to the >>> localisation team :D >>> >>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Santhosh Thottingal < >>>> santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Congrats Srikanth! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- Forwarded message -- >>>>> From: Alolita Sharma >>>>> Check out some of his work on Tamil scripts and >>>>> consonants at >>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Script#Consonants_of_Modern_Tamil >>>>> >>>> >>>> Correction, my blogposts were based on it :) >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < >>>>> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Congratulations Logic. I hope, now the Tamil wikipedia will not have >>>>> any glitches. Cheers >>>>> >>>> >>>> All languages have quite some distance to reach that milestone, am sure >>>> together we can reach there soon :) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards >>>> Srikanth.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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> j.mp/ArunGanesh <http://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 >> >> > > > -- > Regards > Srikanth.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 > > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Volunteers for Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam
Just copying some Wikipedians I have been speaking to, just in case they missed out on this one. On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia > Chapter, India Member's Group. > To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] [Blog]: Chronicling the Crafts – India’s First GLAM Initiative
Dear all, Here's<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/24/chronicling-the-crafts-indias-first-glam-initiative/>a blog post cum report on India's first GLAM initiative at the National Crafts Museum! The program started out in English but was taken forward in Hindi to suit the staff members who have been enthusiastically creating articles and editing in Hindi Wikipedia! The program has been a bold step to prove that GLAM can very well happen in India - with its own design and structure and it has also given the Hindi community a precious gift of 6 new editors. A special thanks to User: Roboture who has been with us in each and every meet and helped train editors, User:Yann for his first set of invaluable Commons contributions and to User:Aniruddhajnu and User:Siddharatha_ghai for coming down to the museum to inspire the staff members. Hope this gives more courage to any community that wants to start a similar project! Would love to provide any help needed. Thank you, Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Blog]: Tag and assess drive 2012: the largest collaboration of WP:India on English Wikipedia!
Dear all, I am delighted to give you a small summary of the Tag and assess drive that was conducted by members of WP:India by means of a blog post. Here<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/20/english-wikipedias-biggest-ever-india-collaboration/>it is. As you can read in it, organizers and participants alike, unequivocally agree it is an unprecedented achievement for members of our community! Thanks to all of you for sparing precious time to give your inputs. Personally, it was also inspiring getting to know editors outside the mailing list. May I take this opportunity to propose a bigger project or a new collaboration like this one? Just starting a conversation :) Thank you, Best, Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Malayalam Wikipedia education programme
Dear Indic community members, I am writing to share to share with you an update from the Malayalam Wiki community. The Malayalam Wikipedia Education Programme[1] - a partnership between the Malayalam Wiki Community and the Government of Kerala's IT@School Project was inaugurated on June 4th in Anchal, Kollam. There are inspiring pictures of the function on Commons.[2] This has already been covered in a very nice way by the press in this article.[3] Shiju has posted a blog about this Programme.[4] There are some useful tips for all Indic communities who might be interested in education programmes. These include a focus on importance of local content as well as the crucial involvement of community members who are teachers and students as new editors. There is also an example of how to build strong partnerships with education authorities with support from community members involved in education. Do join me in congratulating the Malayalam community, in wishing this project the very best of success, in welcoming the students as new editors and in looking forward to fantastic content from the beautiful Kollam region of Kerala. Noopur [1] http://goo.gl/gpFuQ [2] commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Malayalam_wiki_-It@school_education_project [3] newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/article558969.ece [4] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/ -- Noopur Raval ___ 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-mum] Mumbai meetup
Dear Karthik, Can you just mail me the exact details of your meet up - time, agenda, how many people, what you will need etc, like a small paragraph? I will forward that to the Bandra guys and connect you with them. Then, you can coordinate and fix it. Best, Noopur On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote: > >> Hi Noopur, >> can you forward us their details so that we can get in touch with them. >> We also have few other volunteers, who are trying their level best to find >> some better places with all facilities available. Hence, we would be >> considering all, and then select the best one. >> > I wanted to add that Sunday wont be preferable to all due to Mega blocks > in Mumbai suburban railway, which would make it difficult to people > travelling from far away places. So can you ask them if it is fine for > Saturday? > >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Noopur Raval wrote: >> >>> Dear Nikita and all, >>> >>> This place is Flarepath's office. Flarepath is a digital agency. So, >>> it's not a cafe and you don't have to worry about paying anyone. They are >>> also willing to get everyone coffee :) >>> >>> Just let me know a little in advance so that I can connect you with >>> them. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Regards >>> Noopur >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:18 PM, nikita belavate wrote: >>> >>>> Hello ! >>>> >>>> Noopur, we have had past meetups in Bandra with good turnout, so that >>>> will be great! Only thing we felt was that some cafes are bit noisy, so >>>> this time we were thinking of a quieter place. We prefer a Saturday over >>>> Sunday in Mum owing to Mega blocks. Could that be possible? May be myself >>>> or Karthik can also go there and check out before meetup then. Also, there >>>> are more people coming up voluntarily and trying for the venue. >>>> >>>> The Mumbai community is responding both on the Mum-mailing list and >>>> direct mails to us.We will surely check out all the options. Will keep >>>> everyone updated. >>>> Thanks to all. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Nikita Belavate. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Vikram Vincent < >>>> vincentvik...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello! >>>>> Really happy to see the initiative and good work being done by our >>>>> young volunteers. Keep it up. >>>>> With warm wishes, >>>>> -- >>>>> Vikram Vincent >>>>> 09969249984 (Mumbai) >>>>> 09448810822 (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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ___ >>>> Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list >>>> wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Noopur Raval >>> >>> ___ >>> Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list >>> wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Thanks and regards, >> (User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>) >> *Karthik Nadar.* >> (Ph- 9773608862) >> >> > > > -- > Thanks and regards, > (User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>) > *Karthik Nadar.* > (Ph- 9773608862) > > > ___ > Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list > wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum > > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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-mum] Mumbai meetup
Dear Nikita and all, This place is Flarepath's office. Flarepath is a digital agency. So, it's not a cafe and you don't have to worry about paying anyone. They are also willing to get everyone coffee :) Just let me know a little in advance so that I can connect you with them. Thanks Regards Noopur On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:18 PM, nikita belavate wrote: > Hello ! > > Noopur, we have had past meetups in Bandra with good turnout, so that will > be great! Only thing we felt was that some cafes are bit noisy, so this > time we were thinking of a quieter place. We prefer a Saturday over Sunday > in Mum owing to Mega blocks. Could that be possible? May be myself or > Karthik can also go there and check out before meetup then. Also, there are > more people coming up voluntarily and trying for the venue. > > The Mumbai community is responding both on the Mum-mailing list and direct > mails to us.We will surely check out all the options. Will keep everyone > updated. > Thanks to all. > > Regards, > Nikita Belavate. > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Vikram Vincent > wrote: > >> Hello! >> Really happy to see the initiative and good work being done by our >> young volunteers. Keep it up. >> With warm wishes, >> -- >> Vikram Vincent >> 09969249984 (Mumbai) >> 09448810822 (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 >> > > > ___ > Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list > wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum > > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Mumbai meetup
Dear Mumbai Wikipedians, A friend has offered a place in Bandra near Indigo Deli. It can accommodate around 15 people and it has wifi as well! Please do let me know if you want to conduct your meetup in Bandra on Sunday. I'll pass on his contact information to you. Let's make this happen! :) Regards Noopur On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Krutikaa Jawanjal wrote: > Bandra is good. I'll try and talk to TSCE guys if they could help. > > On 7/2/12, Noopur Raval wrote: > > How about a place in Bandra? Would that be convenient to you guys? > > > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < > > parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Karthik, Nikita good to hear you taking such an initiative. I will > >> forward > >> this to others and see if anyone can help out. > >> Cheers, > >> Srikanth. > >> > >> Sent from my iPad. > >> > >> > >> On Friday, June 29, 2012, Karthik Nadar wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> this is in reference to an upcoming meetup in Mumbai, which is yet to > be > >>> announced. > >>> > >>> Applause's to Nikita Belavate, who wanted the forthcoming meetup to be > >>> much more productive one. She wanted to do an editing session, to > >>> motivate > >>> and explain other non-editing volunteers to edit Wikipedia articles. We > >>> have few volunteers who haven't yet involved themselves in editing > ever, > >>> whereas we believe that the promary and best way of contributing to > >>> Wikipedia is by editing and helping the article grow both > >>> in quantity and quality. I'm sure its been much gap, since an editing > >>> session in Mumbai, and the plan sounded great. +n for it! :) > >>> > >>> However, we do always face venue problem, and yeah an editing session > >>> will involve a couple of internet connected computers. Will be great if > >>> anyone knows any place in Mumbai, where we can use their systems > >>> probably > >>> for *two hours* for the meetup. Just an attempt to enhance the Mumbai > >>> community in absence of some senior volunteers. *Do please let us > know*! > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance! > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Thanks and regards, > >>> (User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>) > >>> *Karthik Nadar.* > >>> > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Noopur Raval > > > > ___ > 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 > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Mumbai meetup
How about a place in Bandra? Would that be convenient to you guys? On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Karthik, Nikita good to hear you taking such an initiative. I will forward > this to others and see if anyone can help out. > Cheers, > Srikanth. > > Sent from my iPad. > > > On Friday, June 29, 2012, Karthik Nadar wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> this is in reference to an upcoming meetup in Mumbai, which is yet to be >> announced. >> >> Applause's to Nikita Belavate, who wanted the forthcoming meetup to be >> much more productive one. She wanted to do an editing session, to motivate >> and explain other non-editing volunteers to edit Wikipedia articles. We >> have few volunteers who haven't yet involved themselves in editing ever, >> whereas we believe that the promary and best way of contributing to >> Wikipedia is by editing and helping the article grow both >> in quantity and quality. I'm sure its been much gap, since an editing >> session in Mumbai, and the plan sounded great. +n for it! :) >> >> However, we do always face venue problem, and yeah an editing session >> will involve a couple of internet connected computers. Will be great if >> anyone knows any place in Mumbai, where we can use their systems probably >> for *two hours* for the meetup. Just an attempt to enhance the Mumbai >> community in absence of some senior volunteers. *Do please let us know*! >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> >> -- >> Thanks and regards, >> (User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>) >> *Karthik Nadar.* >> >> > > -- > 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 > > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Blog]: Kerala hosts WikiSangamolsavam
Dear all, I am happy to tell you that the blog post<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/22/kerala-hosts-wikisangamolsavam-first-indic-wikiconference/>on the first Indic language Wikipedia conference - WikiSangamolsavam is up on WMF's Global blog and the Chapter blog<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/06/25/kerala-hosts-wikisangamolsavam-first-indic-wikiconference/>. Malayalam community: all the very best for everything you've planned especially GLAM and IT@schools! Thanks to the Malayalam community members for their valuable inputs and quotes. Thank you, Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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: Social Media pilot
Dear all, Here's a link to yesterday's IRC logs on Social Media pilot for those who missed it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-06-22 Just to summarize, we had a wonderful discussion with English and Indic Wikipedians (from 6 Indic languages - as, bn, ml, ne,or and ta) regarding the different ways in which they have been using social media platforms so far to spread awareness about their Wiki projects. We also spoke about how one can engage new editors, how language on Facebook groups differs, the challenges people have been facing so far. The real challenge would be to retain these editors and motivate them to edit based on their interest. Will keep you updated as we try more things. Let's keep this conversation going and discuss more regularly on how each group is progressing. I'd be happy to help. Please don't hesitate to email me. Thanks, Best, Noopur On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > Once you log in to the webchat server on freenode, type " /join > #wikimedia-office " > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth > wrote: > > Erm, I think ive got in in the wrong channel? I don't see anyone there :S > > > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Noopur Raval > wrote: > >> > >> Dear all, > >> > >> IRC on social media pilot starting in 5 minutes. Please join us at > >> webchat.freenode.net/?channels and enter your nickname and join the > channel > >> #wikimedia-office. > >> > >> See you all there! > >> > >> Best > >> Noopur > >> > >> -- > >> Noopur Raval > >> > >> ___ > >> 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 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > - 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 > > > > ___ > 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 > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] IRC: Social Media pilot
Dear all, IRC on social media pilot starting in 5 minutes. Please join us at webchat.freenode.net/?channels and enter your nickname and join the channel #wikimedia-office. See you all there! Best Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [IRC]: Social Media pilot IRC at 8:00 p.m (IST) on 21st June (today)
Dear all, Just a gentle reminder for today's IRC on Social Media pilot at 8:00 p.m (IST). You can join the meetup by clicking on this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office . Enter a nickname and channel name is #wikimedia-office. Since there is another IRC scheduled at 9:00 p.m for Wiki Loves Monuments in India, we'll try and wrap this up by sharp 9:00 p.m. We'll be discussing the progress on the already active social media groups (English and Odia), explaining strategies to start it on new groups, discussing ways to retain new editors. For those of you who may not have been following this discussion, here's the link to the Social Media pilot<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>that we are running on Facebook right now. Here's the link to the blog post<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/20/social-media-for-wikipedia-outreach-india-program-pilot/>on the Social Media pilot. Since this has been a collaborative process, I would urge all the mentors (existing editors who are helping out on Facebook) to attend the IRC. Your inputs and suggestions would be really helpful in deciding the course of action further. See you there! -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Press]: Lessons and tips on getting media coverage
to take up editing. - Dealing with news channels and radio stations: While DY 365 channel covered the Assamese meetup, other channels did not bother to follow up. For radio, it *only* works if you speak to them in local language. *Other tips:* - It is a *must* to put in a contact number of preferably an email ID at the end of a press release. Maybe all communities should have either a chapter email ID (like beng...@wikimedia.in) or a gmail ID run by an active community member. This can be super useful and will avoid giving out personal details. - Building a quote pool: How about we keep a few quotes from different community members on the basics - (examples: why I edit, how I edit, what is your message to fellow Marathi/Tamil/Gujarati speakers) ? Of course, quotes from people are crucial and must not be misused but, this can help the Chapter communications team too - Getting the article right: Spelling mistakes, misquoted information, erroneous figures are a common problem with Wikipedia stories. Although it may not always be possible, do request the journalist to show you the article before publishing it. - Targeting news agencies: After the Assamese press experience, I realized having one PTI press release ensures that the story reaches at least 4-5 newspapers. This is a very effective way of maximizing media coverage. I might have missed out on a few lessons and invite community members and the chapter communication team to contribute with more inputs. Maybe we can even document this on Meta for future reference. Thank you, Best Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Visit from Bangladeshi Wikipedians
Dear all, Last week, Nurunnaby, Zaid and Jewel, three Bangladeshi Wikipedians were in New Delhi and happened to visit India Program team. It was awesome to meet all three of them and hear what they were doing for Wikipedia in Bangladesh. We discussed how they could engage many active OSN members (Open Source Networks) that are active in their respective cities. Since Nurunnaby had told me earlier that he was particularly interested in discussing how to use social media effectively, we also had a productive discussion on that. It was very kind of them to send out a press note of their meeting which has now been covered by almost 8 newspapers/portals. Kudos for spreading the good word! I hope we will soon implement some of these ideas that we spoke about. Here are the links to the news articles: 1. http://www.banglanews24.com/detailsnews.php?nssl=074668a183a3733ca44e215bc0b385e5&nttl=18062012120130 2. http://new.ittefaq.com.bd/news/view/105027/2012-06-19/13 3. http://www.samakal.com.bd/details.php?news=52&action=main&menu_type=&option=single&news_id=269343&pub_no=1088&type= 4. http://www.barta24.net/?view=details&data=College&news_type_id=1&menu_id=75&news_id=51105 5. http://www.techzoom24.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2305:2012-06-18-08-42-38&catid=24:bangladeshi-tech-news&Itemid=539 6. http://www.cnewsvoice.com/DetailsNews.php?sesID=&NewsID=N06821 7. http://kalerkantho.com/?view=details&type=gold&data=Hotel&pub_no=919&cat_id=1&menu_id=61&news_type_id=1&index=7 8. http://www.sangbad.com.bd/?view=details&type=gold&data=Food&pub_no=1095&menu_id=28&news_type_id=1&val=102622 Thank you, Best, Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [India Program]: Monthly reports for May-June and IRC announcement
Dear all, *Monthly reports/plans: *Here's a link to the monthly report for May: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Reports/May_2012 Here's a link to the monthly plan for June: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Reports/June_2012 There was an IRC meeting to discuss community building for Indic languages. Here is a link to the logs: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-06-07 *IRC on 21st June: *We plan to have an IRC meeting on June 21st at 8:00 p.m on Communications. The focus will be on the Social media pilot currently running in Assamese, English and Odia. Do join us using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/? on the #wikimedia-office channel. Apologies for the delay in sending this out. I should have sent this last week but, unfortunately some things came up. Going forward will ensure the monthly reports come out by the 10th . Please do respond with your questions and suggestions. Thank you, Best, -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [IRC]: India Program: Community Building Pilot (7th June - 9:30 p.m)
Hey folks, Hisham <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham> had posted an update on the community building<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building>pilot Shiju <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju> ran as part of India Program. This pilot was run in Assam but there are tips and pointers and suggestions from this pilot that are relevant for all Indic communities. As part of the India Programs IRCs, we propose the first monthly IRC of June to be on this topic. We'd like to discuss how to build and support communities by increasing the number of editors, assessing progress on Wikiprojects as well as fostering possibilities of new collaborations. Please join us on *7th June* at *09:30 p.m* IST using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. Thank you, Best, Noopur On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Hisham wrote: > Dear All > > I wanted to share with you an update on the work that > Shiju<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju>[1] is > doing on Indic > languages<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages>[2] > as part of India Program <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program>.[3] > A guiding principle for the thinking and efforts of our team is that > community building should be the most essential aspect of all the work that > we do. In the context of small Indic communities, Shiju has been working > to try and identify the various elements that need to come together to > foster community building. This update is about the Community Building > pilot<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building>[4] > that > was run for the Assamese community. For context, community building means > different things to different people and in fact there was a very > interesting > post<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.html>[5] > that Shiju put out that articulated his thinking on this and, hence, our > priorities. > > The results of these efforts have been outstanding > >- number of editors on Assamese Wikipedia has increased to 31 in April >2012 (from 18 in December 2011 and just 10 in November 2011.) >- number of Wikiprojects increased to 6 (from a situation where there >were no reasonably active ones in December 2011- and including 5 >Wikiprojects independently conceptualised and managed by the community) >- average monthly edits on Assamese Wikipedia increased to about 5000 >in April 2012 from around 3000 in November 2011 > > There are 5 key factors that are responsible for this remarkable growth > >1. *Strong communication*. This started with Shiju building personal >connections with Assamese editors and then encouraging them to communicate >with each other on-wiki, online and in meet--ups and outreach sessions. >2. *Initial push*. Shiju visited Assam in January where he spent time >in 2 towns with 7 of the most active community members, who also conducted >2 outreach sessions. This visit has proved to be really useful because it >helped to energise the community and also helped to establish a personal >relationship between Shiju and these editors (and also, amongst the editors >themselves.) >3. *Encouraging collaboration*. Wikiprojects and outreach are really >useful to galvanise a community and helped build personal equations. It's >wonderful to see the increase in Wikiprojects and >4. *Building capacity & confidence*. In all the work that has been >done for the Assamese community, the endeavour has been to build capacity. > For instance, support was given to get basic outreach material including >FAQs prepared and outreach sessions were guided by Shiju. It's inspiring >to see the Assamese community now take things to a whole new level and plan >out an ambitious 10th > anniversary<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/> >.[6] >5. *Healthy environment*. This is the last - but probably the most >essential point - and it is something I want to call out because it is what >will help or severely hinder the abilities of individual communities >realise their dreams and potential. The reason why the Assamese community >is making such wonderful steps forward is because there is > - a set of editors with the right level of initiative and motivation > - a strong sense of co-operation and good spirit amongst the editors > - an extremely welcoming approach to new editors > > None of this would have been possible without the efforts of every single > Assamese
[Wikimediaindia-l] [IRC]: India Program: Community Building Pilot (7th June - 9:30 p.m)
Hey folks, Hisham <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham> had posted an update on the community building<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building>pilot Shiju <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju> ran as part of India Program. This pilot was run in Assam but there are tips and pointers and suggestions from this pilot that are relevant for all Indic communities. As part of the India Programs IRCs, we propose the first monthly IRC of June to be on this topic. We'd like to discuss how to build and support communities by increasing the number of editors, assessing progress on Wikiprojects as well as fostering possibilities of new collaborations. Please join us on *7th June* at *09:30 p.m* IST using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. Thank you, Best, Noopur On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Hisham wrote: > >> Dear All >> >> I wanted to share with you an update on the work that >> Shiju<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju>[1] is >> doing on Indic >> languages<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages>[2] >> as part of India Program <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program>.[3] >> A guiding principle for the thinking and efforts of our team is that >> community building should be the most essential aspect of all the work that >> we do. In the context of small Indic communities, Shiju has been working >> to try and identify the various elements that need to come together to >> foster community building. This update is about the Community Building >> pilot<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building>[4] >> that >> was run for the Assamese community. For context, community building means >> different things to different people and in fact there was a very >> interesting >> post<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.html>[5] >> that Shiju put out that articulated his thinking on this and, hence, our >> priorities. >> >> The results of these efforts have been outstanding >> >>- number of editors on Assamese Wikipedia has increased to 31 in >>April 2012 (from 18 in December 2011 and just 10 in November 2011.) >>- number of Wikiprojects increased to 6 (from a situation where there >>were no reasonably active ones in December 2011- and including 5 >>Wikiprojects independently conceptualised and managed by the community) >>- average monthly edits on Assamese Wikipedia increased to about 5000 >>in April 2012 from around 3000 in November 2011 >> >> There are 5 key factors that are responsible for this remarkable growth >> >>1. *Strong communication*. This started with Shiju building personal >>connections with Assamese editors and then encouraging them to communicate >>with each other on-wiki, online and in meet--ups and outreach sessions. >>2. *Initial push*. Shiju visited Assam in January where he spent >>time in 2 towns with 7 of the most active community members, who also >>conducted 2 outreach sessions. This visit has proved to be really useful >>because it helped to energise the community and also helped to establish a >>personal relationship between Shiju and these editors (and also, amongst >>the editors themselves.) >>3. *Encouraging collaboration*. Wikiprojects and outreach are really >>useful to galvanise a community and helped build personal equations. It's >>wonderful to see the increase in Wikiprojects and >>4. *Building capacity & confidence*. In all the work that has been >>done for the Assamese community, the endeavour has been to build capacity. >> For instance, support was given to get basic outreach material including >>FAQs prepared and outreach sessions were guided by Shiju. It's inspiring >>to see the Assamese community now take things to a whole new level and >> plan >>out an ambitious 10th >> anniversary<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/> >>.[6] >>5. *Healthy environment*. This is the last - but probably the most >>essential point - and it is something I want to call out because it is >> what >>will help or severely hinder the abilities of individual communities >>realise their dreams and potential. The reason why the Assamese community >>is making such wonderful steps forward is because there is >> - a set of editors with the right level of init
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June
Hey folks, Here's another similar story in today's Indian Express: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/to-counter-pak-india-to-launch-its-own-urdu-wiki/957849/ There was supposed to be a meeting on Monday with the director concerned, but it had to be rescheduled. We'll keep you posted on the developments after the meeting. Best, Noopur On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Ravishankar wrote: > >> >> This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative. >> Wikipedia, Wiki have long become common names to indicate anything like >> encyclopaedia. >> > > > Point of order: > > Wiki is a generic name. Wikipedia is not. It is a registered trademark. > Using it as a common/genericized term would be incorrect,and is something > that we fight regularly, legally. :) > > pb > ___ > Philippe Beaudette > Director, Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > 415-839-6885, x 6643 > > phili...@wikimedia.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 > > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Update on Social Media Pilot
Dear all, Please find the responses inline On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > Even these answers would be interesting for me. Hope we get them soon. > On 2 Jun 2012 11:04, "Anirudh Bhati" wrote: > >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: >> >>> Noopur, thank you for posting the report. I have a few questions for >>> the India Programs team which I have listed under, would appreciate if you >>> could respond: >>> >>> 1. How do you plan on scaling the Social Media pilot beyond your own >>> networks? >>> >> > The Social Media Pilot does not run on our personal networks. However, >>> given the interstitial nature of social networks, we might have mutual >>> friends with people. Otherwise, most of these participants are people from >>> previous outreach sessions and users who had 'liked' our various pages and >>> activities but did not know what to do after that. >>> >> > Coming to the scaling bit, even outside the current network, I welcome you >>> and all other Wikipedians to help us spread the word and even add a few >>> friends of yours who might be interested in learning about Wikipedia. The >>> next steps are to reach out to interest groups on social networks, such as >>> - and this is purely by way of example - groups that are interested in >>> railways or modern Indian art, etc and see if the profile of members of >>> these groups is such that there might be potential new editors and explore >>> if we can generate curiosity in these members to join our group. >>> >> > The work that has been done on Odia and already done (at least building >>> the group, if not the more methodical approach to encouraging new editor) >>> on Kannada point to the potential of interest groups. Kannada - for >>> instance - already has 2000+ members. In both these cases, they drew >>> members from people who were active or interested in language interest >>> social groups (in these cases, the interest is the language itself.) >>> >> > Additionally, social media is being used in various ways by communities >>> across India including the Assamese, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam and we >>> want to observe them, how they reach out to people, what works and what >>> doesn't before we make more interventions. >>> >> > >>> >> 2. Do you believe you can effectively create a mechanism for recruitment >>> of editors through this project in a manner that justifies the cost and >>> time involved? I am asking this because I noticed that you make serious >>> attempts at trying to convince users to edit Wikipedia pages. >>> >> > There is a fine difference between convincing people to edit Wikipedia and >>> going that extra mile to help them out. In my humble opinion if these are >>> users who have previously liked various pages of ours and activities, the >>> former is already achieved. However, if they lost interest or simply saw no >>> new activity happening on the page, it is useful to tell them we are doing >>> something new. Unlike physical outreach, we are able to resolve internet >>> issues, barriers of consumption, familiarity and individual engagement. >>> Remember how Anirudh and I answered Commons queries for the Ahmedabad photo >>> walk? I am happy to say that of those we actually ended up meeting 2 >>> (correct me if I am mistaken) long term editors. >>> >> > The major effort I put into social media was analysing the way the various >>> Facebook pages were functioning, what were the challenges & opportunities, >>> how we could construct a set of guidelines and walking community members >>> through these guidelines - which I detailed out as part of a very specific >>> nearly 20 point plan here ( >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media#Process >>> ) >>> >> > 3. How many hours per week do you spend on the Wikipedia support group? >>> >> > As is with the pervasive nature of social media networks and the stuff we >>> do on them, there is no way you can tell the actual time spent. I also >>> answers queries of people on Saturday and Sunday just because I want to >>> help and that doesn't depend on my office timings. Similarly, as explained >>> earlier, mentors come in and go out depending on their schedules. Going >>> further though, we'd love to scale it to a point where only m
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog post]: Numerals in Indic languages
Hey folks, Shiju has published an interesting post on numerals in an Indic context. It's a really fascinating overview - including how numerals are depicted across Indic languages, their use across languages, the policies adopted by the various Indic communities, the need for some community decisions to take things forward, a bit of Shiju's personal grumble on the fact that Hindi film posters are no longer in Hindi :-) and a picture of a Northern Railways bed sheet! Intrigued? Read more on either on meta<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Numerals_in_Indic_Languages_&_Indic_language_Wikipedias> and or the Chapter blog<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/06/01/numerals-in-indic-languages-indic-wikipedias-2/> . [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Numerals_in_Indic_Languages_%26_Indic_language_Wikipedias [2] http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/06/01/numerals-in-indic-languages-indic-wikipedias-2/ Regards, Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Press]: Medianma - Wikipedians Digitizing Out-Of-Copyright Texts In Eight Indian Languages
Dear all, Here's an article by Medianama on Wikisource in Indic languages ( http://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-wikipedians-digitizing-out-of-copyright-text-in-eight-indian-languages<http://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-wikipedians-digitizing-out-of-copyright-text-in-eight-indian-languages/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+medianama+%28Medianama%3A+Digital+Media+In+India%29>). There are a couple of minor misses on the article - but it does refer to two important aspects about Wikisource: a) It is a door through which many have entered our projects and communities (i.e., they start with Wikisource, and indeed Wiktionary, because it's relatively easier to contribute to, and then they move on to contribute to other projects too, such as Wikipedia) - especially in Indic languages. b) The initiative run by Malayalam community (written about in the article) to encourage school children to contribute to Wikisource is something that could be of interest to many other communities. If anyone wants any help to start conversations with schools in their states, Nitika and I would be happy to help out. Please reach out to us at noo...@wikimedia.org or nit...@wikimedia.org -- *Wikipedians Digitizing Out-Of-Copyright Texts In Eight Indian Languages**-Nikhil Pahwa In what is a painstaking process, Wikipedians are digitizing Indian language, out-of-copyright texts online, trying to address the comparative paucity of Indic language texts online. Wikisource is a repository of documents and archived material that serves as a reference source for Wikipedia, and a means of improving access to information sources. Of the 64 languages Wikisource is available in, 8 are Indian: Tamil<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm>( stats <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryTA.htm>), Malayalam<http://ml.wikisource.org/>( stats <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryML.htm>), Telugu<http://te.wikisource.org/>( stats <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryTE.htm>), Kannada<http://kn.wikisource.org/>( stats <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryKN.htm>), Sanskrit<http://sa.wikisource.org/>( stats <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummarySA.htm>), Marathi<http://mr.wikisource.org/>( stats <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryMR.htm>), Bengali<http://bn.wikisource.org/>( stats <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryBN.htm>) and Gujarati<http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesWikipediaGU.htm>( stats <http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryGU.htm>). What’s particularly notable about this digitization is that the texts are being typed out by volunteers on their own time, one word at a time.* *How It Began* *Users were adding bhajans of Mirabai to Wikipedia, but according to Wikipedia’s policies, recipes, poems and song lyrics belong to Wikibooks or Wikisource, Noopur Raval, Communications Consultant (India Program) at the Wikimedia Foundation told MediaNama. One user raised this issue, and following discussions, it was decided to create a Wikisource for Gujarati. The first text to be digitized, though, was Rachnatmak Karyakram, a book by Mahatma Gandhi. The project, involving the digitization of 60 pages, took six volunteers a week. This was followed by another project, the digitization of Gandhi’s autobiography, with a group of 13 people typing out the book over a month.* *Identification & Prioritization Of Texts For Digitization* *Selection of text for digitization is entirely community driven: they decide what is important. Editors put up a notice for the project, and user participation is sought. For example, the Gujarati Wikisource editors chose a text by Mahatma Gandhi. The community has an intensive process for checking if a book is out of copyright, either using the publication date, and there are mailing lists which discuss when books go out of copyright. “It’s not as if there is a shortage of texts that are out of copyright,” Hisham Mundol, Consultant (India Program) at the Wikimedia Foundation said, adding that “The kind of projects that the community is undertaking (at present) involves iconic books, where you know the author and the publisher.”* *Overcoming Technological Challenges* *Mundol points out that the process of digitization is brutal, compounded by the fact that there is no reasonably functional OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Indic languages. Texts are thus manually typed out, followed by a phase of correction and proofreading. In comparison, English texts can be scanned and uploaded and OCR’ed. The lack of tools points towards an issue which Wikipedia faces with Indic languages. “If a MediaWiki tool comes to an English language project, the possibility of implementing it, the kind of people using it, all of that happens very quickly, becau
[Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Social Media Pilot
as well as people who speak the language and might be interested in knowing about Wikipedia. We used similar techniques as above to expand the group conversations beyond existing Wikipedians and encourage new editors to participate. Once when an article on Handia <https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handia> (a local beverage) was posted, a new User:Swetapadma<https://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Swetapadma07&action=edit&redlink=1>came forward to contribute images. Since then, she has been contributing to articles on Odia cuisine and adding images to articles on Tribes of Odisha. User:Hellohappy<https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Hellohappy>edited the article on Capital High School, Bhubaneswar<https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_High_School,_Bhubaneswar> . So far almost 10 new users have joined in and made their first few edits in the past month. Given the small size of Indic communities, this could be a very effective way of encouraging newbies. This also helps because it means that it filters in those who have Internet connectivity, are passionate about the language and (in most cases) are familiar with typing in Indic languages). Again, this was done with the help of existing Odia Wikipedians like Gorvachove, Mrutyunjay Kar, Gyanranjan Sahu, Suratha Parhi, Diptiman and others. *Challenges*: Now that we've figured out a way of engaging so many new editors and getting them to make their first 5 edits, the challenge is to integrate them into our community and make sure they continue editing. Also, it would be ideal to expand this initiative to other Indic and Wikipedia user groups. (I am already working with the Kannada community and I know that Wikipedia Club Pune has already been trying something similar). I would like to invite all community members interested to write to me ( noo...@wikimedia.org) and then we can have a brief skype call and figure how to implement it for your group. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media [2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediasupport/ [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media#Process [4] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediasupport/doc/353268748054711/ [5] https://www.facebook.com/groups/OdiaWiki/ Regards, Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Wikipatrika]: Announcing the third issue of Wikipatrika!
Thank you, Bishakha, on behalf of all the members who contributed. :) You are welcome to contribute to the next issue! Best, Noopur On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > I've now read this from top to toe, or at least gone through everything I > had not read before - congratulations to all those who were involved. It's > brilliant! > > I found it interesting, useful, timely - and the layout is easy to > navigate (specially the community news section, with each language > community as a separate tab). And of course, it's only when you see it all > in the same place that you realize the huge amount of work that is > happening in India. > > Cheers and may wikipatrika go from strength to strength! > Bishakha > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Noopur Raval wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I am very happy to tell you all that the third issue of Wikipatrika - the >> community newsletter is finally out! You can check it here: >> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05 >> >> First things first, a humble acknowledgement to all the editors who >> helped out with this issue of the newsletter. A special thanks to Gitartha >> (as), Debanjan (bn), Karthik (en and mr), Pratik (en), DS Vyas and Sushant >> (gu), Siddhartha (hi), Omshivaprakash (kn), Anoop, Kannan, Sreejith, >> Viswaprabha and Shiju (ml), Abhishek (mr), Rajesh and Saroj (ne), Mkar and >> Srikant Kedia (or), Abhiram (sa), Logicwiki and Shanmugam (ta), Arjuna and >> Rahimanuddin (te). In other contributions, thanks to Srikanth R for >> Commons, Logic, Santhosh, Achal for Free culture news and Tinu for Press >> news. >> This entire venture could not have been possible without Tanvir's >> constant support with templates and tweaks. Forgive me if I have missed >> someone. >> >> So, what has changed from last time? Since all the Wikimeetups are listed >> on Wikipedia here and on the respective community pages, we've omitted the >> section on events and meetups. Instead, we've added a section on*Featured >> Interviews >> * which has a GLAM interview this time and the *EPOV* column (Editor's >> point of view: INCOTM report). >> >> The idea is to make Wikipatrika a supplement to the mailing lists and >> village pumps and not replicate the same information in all places. >> Hopefully, by the next issue, with more featured interviews, insightful >> pieces from editors and free culture persons we will be able to achieve >> that. >> >> *The way forward: * >> >> It's a proud moment to see the amount of activity that all our language >> communities are involved in. We should definitely strive to make >> Wikipatrika regular and hopefully get more editors to contribute. This is >> one space where editors can express the dreams, visions and challenges that >> their Wikipedia community faces. If you have projects you want to publicize >> or successful projects that could be started in other communities, this is >> the space to express your opinion! From next time onward, we will >> coordinate Patrika on >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-newsletter *mailing >> list*. I welcome you all to join right away and we can discuss ideas for >> features, changing the format and more! :) >> >> Regards, >> Noopur >> >> -- >> Noopur Raval >> >> ___ >> 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 > > -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Wikipatrika]: Announcing the third issue of Wikipatrika!
Dear all, I am very happy to tell you all that the third issue of Wikipatrika - the community newsletter is finally out! You can check it here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05 First things first, a humble acknowledgement to all the editors who helped out with this issue of the newsletter. A special thanks to Gitartha (as), Debanjan (bn), Karthik (en and mr), Pratik (en), DS Vyas and Sushant (gu), Siddhartha (hi), Omshivaprakash (kn), Anoop, Kannan, Sreejith, Viswaprabha and Shiju (ml), Abhishek (mr), Rajesh and Saroj (ne), Mkar and Srikant Kedia (or), Abhiram (sa), Logicwiki and Shanmugam (ta), Arjuna and Rahimanuddin (te). In other contributions, thanks to Srikanth R for Commons, Logic, Santhosh, Achal for Free culture news and Tinu for Press news. This entire venture could not have been possible without Tanvir's constant support with templates and tweaks. Forgive me if I have missed someone. So, what has changed from last time? Since all the Wikimeetups are listed on Wikipedia here and on the respective community pages, we've omitted the section on events and meetups. Instead, we've added a section on* Featured Interviews* which has a GLAM interview this time and the *EPOV* column (Editor's point of view: INCOTM report). The idea is to make Wikipatrika a supplement to the mailing lists and village pumps and not replicate the same information in all places. Hopefully, by the next issue, with more featured interviews, insightful pieces from editors and free culture persons we will be able to achieve that. *The way forward: * It's a proud moment to see the amount of activity that all our language communities are involved in. We should definitely strive to make Wikipatrika regular and hopefully get more editors to contribute. This is one space where editors can express the dreams, visions and challenges that their Wikipedia community faces. If you have projects you want to publicize or successful projects that could be started in other communities, this is the space to express your opinion! From next time onward, we will coordinate Patrika on https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-newsletter *mailing list*. I welcome you all to join right away and we can discuss ideas for features, changing the format and more! :) Regards, Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [India Program]: Monthly report and updates
Dear all, Time for monthly updates and reports. Here's the India Program report for the month of April: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Reports/Apr_2012 and, the proposed work plan for the month of May: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Reports/May_2012 Also, while I am sure the official report on the very successful WikiSangamolsavam is on it's way, here's a blog post by Barry Newstead who heads Global Development at the Wikimedia Foundation, on his experience of the conference: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/04/focusing-on-90-percent-of-india/ Thank you, Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Wikipatrika]: A quick update
Dear all, A quick update on Wikipatrika. Here's the current draft of the next issue http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News As you can see, most of the sections have been updated with information on events, meetups and Wikipedia news of our various language communities. This time, we've also added an interview of a community member (Bpositive's report on INCOTM) and an external interview (interview with a GLAM Director) to make Patrika more informative and interesting. Quite a few of you may already have contributed to this draft. The pages for as, bn, gu, hi, en, kn, ne, or, sa, te and ta have already been translated from the respective languages. There is also a Commons tab where we can add information on various photo walks. The reason why I'm sharing this update is for everyone else to add material that may have been left out or any other details. Do remember that we are planning to release this on May 10th so please do add your edits / sections by May 9th. Also, going forward, we hope to coordinate the issue on the Wikipatrika mailing list. So, I invite all those interested to join the Wikipatrika mailing list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-newsletter Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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-l] Wikipedians in Other Languages Needed
This might be useful for those interested in and working on medical translate projects. -- Forwarded message -- From: James Heilman Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:10 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedians in Other Languages Needed To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello All The project we have been working on to develop medical content and translate it into other languages is going well. We have an initial set of 13 top importance GAs ready for translation by "Translators Without Borders". Article should begin arriving in a couple of weeks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force We are looking at starting with an initial group of 9 languages and need Wikipedians to help incorporate article into that wiki language in 7 of them including: Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Persian, Romanian and Turkish. If there are people with these language / wiki abilities who wish to help volunteers would be much appreciated. Please sign up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force#People_involved_.28with_language_ability.29 Also if you know of anyone who is not on this list who might be interested send them my way. Many thanks -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] Reminder for the edit-a-thon on April 21
Dear all, Just a gentle reminder to come join us tomorrow for the first GLAM edit-a-thon happening at the Crafts Museum, New Delhi. Of course, goes without saying, you can participate from wherever you are located. The edit-a-thon starts at 2:00 p.m. IST officially. You may join in and edit throughout the day. Here's the link to the sign up page. Let's make this a big success with all our edits :) Here's a list of things you can do: 1. Improve the articles listed on the page 2. Add more articles related to Indian crafts 3. Translate these articles to different languages 4. Add images from Commons. See you tomorrow (online or offline) :) Thanks! Noopur -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] India Program: Fortnightly IRC: Thursday April 19 at 9pm IST: Indic Outreach & Communications
Dear all, Here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19>are the logs for the IRC that happened on 19th April, 2012. This IRC was centered around Outreach in Indic languages and Communications updates. In Indic language outreach, we discussed translating documents that support outreach in different languages. Another important point discussed was the need to have more Indic langauge outreach sessions. Some members from the Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and Odia<http://tiny.cc/odia%20>community have already translated these documents. In communications, we discussed Wikipatrika<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News>and the social media plan<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>for Odia community. 6 communities have created pages for Wikipatrika in their respective Wikipedias so far and the social media pilot will begin in the next week. If you were unable to attend the IRC and have any inputs or feedback, please do reach out to Nitika (for outreach) and Noopur (for communications). Here are our email ids: ntan...@wikimedia.org and noo...@wikimedia.org. Thanks Noopur [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19 [2]http://tiny.cc/odia<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fodia&h=BAQECsOhBAQEu9u91dyqGvLzp4TyxuE4Pn0c0OnskmGvIGw> [3]http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News [4]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Noopur wrote: > Hey guys, just a reminder. IRC starts in 15 minutes. > > Regards > Noopur > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Noopur Raval wrote: > >> Hey folks >> >> The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th >> April at 9 p.m. IST. Do join us using this link: >> http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. >> >> We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one. >> Here is what we plan to discuss this time: >> >> *Outreach* >> >> Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach sessions and >> have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best >> practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in >> adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their >> respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for >> increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic languages >> but we need your help on this: >> >> 1. Start translating outreach supporting documents to Indic languages - >> To start with we want Indic language community members to help us translate >> outreach documents and presentations to Indic languages. >> >> 2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been mailing/calling >> a lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (see list >> here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence>)[1] >> in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach >> sessions as we'd like since they feel more comfortable corresponding in >> their own regional language. We want help from Indic langauge editors who >> are interested to do more outreach in their regional languages/cities to >> help us reach out to these institutes. >> >> I'd request all the Indic language editors who want to help us out on >> either of the two points mentioned above to show up on the IRC or write to >> us offlist since we'll be discussing ways of doing effective outreach in >> regional languages. >> >> >> *Communications:* *Wikipatrika:* >> 6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu ) have >> already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias. The new >> template for Wikipatrika is up >> here<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News>.[2] >> In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make >> Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that community >> members maybe facing. >> >> *Communications:* *Odia Social Media pilot:* >> As proposed earlier, >> here's<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>[3] >> the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end >> result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to the >> Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies to use a >> platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more editors to the >> Odia Wikipedia. The most important nua
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Fortnightly IRC: Thursday April 19 at 9pm IST: Indic Outreach & Communications
Hey guys, just a reminder. IRC starts in 15 minutes. Regards Noopur On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Noopur Raval wrote: > Hey folks > > The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th > April at 9 p.m. IST. Do join us using this link: > http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. > > We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one. > Here is what we plan to discuss this time: > > *Outreach* > > Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach sessions and > have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best > practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in > adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their > respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for > increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic languages > but we need your help on this: > > 1. Start translating outreach supporting documents to Indic languages - To > start with we want Indic language community members to help us translate > outreach documents and presentations to Indic languages. > > 2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been mailing/calling > a lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (see list > here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence>)[1] > in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach > sessions as we'd like since they feel more comfortable corresponding in > their own regional language. We want help from Indic langauge editors who > are interested to do more outreach in their regional languages/cities to > help us reach out to these institutes. > > I'd request all the Indic language editors who want to help us out on > either of the two points mentioned above to show up on the IRC or write to > us offlist since we'll be discussing ways of doing effective outreach in > regional languages. > > > *Communications:* *Wikipatrika:* > 6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu ) have > already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias. The new > template for Wikipatrika is up > here<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News>.[2] > In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make > Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that community > members maybe facing. > > *Communications:* *Odia Social Media pilot:* > As proposed earlier, > here's<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>[3] > the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end > result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to the > Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies to use a > platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more editors to the > Odia Wikipedia. The most important nuance is that we have built a draft > social media messaging strategy and plan to work closely with the Odia > community to implement it - through the community members. We hope to > discuss this plan and get your inputs on it. > > As always, the first 45 minutes will be focused on these and the last 15 > minutes will be open to any other topic. > Hope you all can join us. > > (For those who can't join, the logs will be put up the next morning at > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19 > > Thanks > > > > [1] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence > [2] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News > [3] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media > > -- > Noopur Raval > > ___ > 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] India Program: Fortnightly IRC: Thursday April 19 at 9pm IST: Indic Outreach & Communications
Hey folks The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th April at 9 p.m. IST. Do join us using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one. Here is what we plan to discuss this time: *Outreach* Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach sessions and have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic languages but we need your help on this: 1. Start translating outreach supporting documents to Indic languages - To start with we want Indic language community members to help us translate outreach documents and presentations to Indic languages. 2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been mailing/calling a lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (see list here<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence>)[1] in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach sessions as we'd like since they feel more comfortable corresponding in their own regional language. We want help from Indic langauge editors who are interested to do more outreach in their regional languages/cities to help us reach out to these institutes. I'd request all the Indic language editors who want to help us out on either of the two points mentioned above to show up on the IRC or write to us offlist since we'll be discussing ways of doing effective outreach in regional languages. *Communications:* *Wikipatrika:* 6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu ) have already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias. The new template for Wikipatrika is up here<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News>.[2] In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that community members maybe facing. *Communications:* *Odia Social Media pilot:* As proposed earlier, here's<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>[3] the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to the Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies to use a platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more editors to the Odia Wikipedia. The most important nuance is that we have built a draft social media messaging strategy and plan to work closely with the Odia community to implement it - through the community members. We hope to discuss this plan and get your inputs on it. As always, the first 45 minutes will be focused on these and the last 15 minutes will be open to any other topic. Hope you all can join us. (For those who can't join, the logs will be put up the next morning at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19 Thanks [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence [2] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [GLAM]: Update and Crafts Museum edit-a-thon!
ping to see all of you participate and make this a big success across languages! :) Thanks Noopur [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/CM [2] http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AF,_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80 [3] http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%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%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AF [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Crafts_Museum1 ___ 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] [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community
Hey folks, The Tamil Wikimedia Contest organized by User: Sodabottle and other members of the Tamil community recently got over. As you are all aware, it generated over 15,000 media files and got over 250 new contributors to Commons. A detailed report was published at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tamil_Wikimedians/TamilWiki_Media_Contest/Report There's also a blog post that we've been working on that takes a peek at TWMC behind the scenes with inputs from the organizing team. It might be really useful to any community planning to conduct a similar events in future. You can read the post here: http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/17/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/. It's a great story of how an off-the-cuff conversation between 2 editors resulted in a massive community wide initiative - with participation of the Tamil community (and other communities) from across the world, the kind of intense efforts, the use of technology enablers and last - and most certainly not the least - some fantastic images (a sample of which can be seen at http://www.tawp.in/r/33zx) - which have now been used to create or improve articles (6122 on Tamil Wiktionary, 1659 on Tamil Wikipedia and more). Do go through the story and add comments. Please also share it with others. Don't forget to use the images to improve articles on your Wikipedia! (They are all available on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TamilWiki_Media_Contest) I am thankful to Natkeeran for the wonderful story idea and to Sodabottle, Logicwiki and others for your inputs, insights and times! Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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: Asian Foundation for Philanthropy
*fyi *This might be of interest to all the community members including those who live abroad. If you want to respond, you could reply directly to Richard and mark Bhakti on it. Thanks Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Symonds Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:59 PM Subject: Asian Foundation for Philanthropy To: pr...@wikimedia.in, werespielchequ...@gmail.com Cc: bhakti.deod...@affp.org.uk Hi all, The Asian Foundation for Philanthropy, a small UK charity, are based in the same building as us, in London. They are an organisation who work to promote social change in India and within the Indo-British community. They would like to interview someone from the Wikimedia movement, including Wikimedia UK, but would also like to interview some people from India and UK editors with Indian connections. They're specifically interested in talking about the recent issue of press censorship in India. I'm emailing you (the Wikimedia India Chapter and UK volunteer WereSpielChequers to ask if you might be interested in participating in this? I have copied in Bhakti Deodhar, the Project Manager for the AFfP. All the best, Richard Symonds Office & Development Manager Wikimedia UK -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] [Press]: Youths come forward to fill up Odia Wikipedia
<http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/380548.html>Dear all, Here <http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/380548.html>is a news report from The New Indian Express on the Odia Wikipedia's outreach activities which was then republished<http://ibnlive.in.com/news/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/247114-60-117.html>by IBNLive. Thanks Tinu for sharing them on twitter. Hopefully, going forward with every meetup or event that community members conduct, we can try for more media coverage and also simultaneously try for more social media outreach to support each event. Great work guys! :) [1] http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/380548.html [2] http://ibnlive.in.com/news/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/247114-60-117.html Thank you, Regards -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Blog]: The source of Gujarati Wikisource
Dear all, As you might have read earlier, the Gujarati Wikisource was launched recently on March 27th and is now active with 1000 articles and 1 book already. As part of the story telling series, here is the wonderful story<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-years-6-users-1000-articles-counting-the-source-of-gujarati-wikisource/>of a a journey that started with one member who filed the request to create Wikisource, 2 members who joined in for their love of Bhajans, and gradually a group of 6 members who helped reach the 1000 article mark. The passion and enthusiasm of the Gujarati community members for their language is very motivating, especially to all Indic Wikipedians who strive for the same cause. This story will also interest those communities interested in starting a Wikisource of their own. Most importantly, it shows the power of individual community members and how community collaboration is so magical and constructive! Thank you, Regards Noopur [1] http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-years-6-users-1000-articles-counting-the-source-of-gujarati-wikisource/ -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Blog]: Post on Aniruddha Kumar - Hindi Wikipedian
Dear all, Forwarding a link to the blog post on Aniruddha Kumar, a Hindi Wikipedian. Many of us had the pleasure of meeting him in person at the Wikiconference and some of us may also have seen him appear on the banners. Here<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/30/the-right-to-information-on-wikipedia/>is his Wiki story covered by Jordan Hu. A very inspiring story indeed! [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/30/the-right-to-information-on-wikipedia/ Thank you, Regards -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Press]: Caravan article: Fact Check
Dear all, Here is a story by this reporter who attended the Delhi meet up. Caravan folks had been contacting us for a while regarding 'Wikipedia meet ups' and finally their reporter Krishn landed up at the 7th meet up. Just a heads up, these are entirely his observations and even the quotes are not verbatim. He's paraphrased what he heard us say. Subha will agree. Anyway, it's a good piece on an outsider's perspective of Wikipedia outreach. Also, it happens almost always that journalists are clueless about the Wiki universe and end up misquoting facts, figures, terms. Maybe a journalist outreach session or inviting them to attend an entire editing session could remedy this? [1] http://caravanmagazine.in/Story.aspx?StoryId=1345 -- FACT CHECK: Krishn Kaushik BALADEVAN RANGARAJAN moved his brown beanbag to the centre of the room, closer to the round wooden table on which lay a Macbook. He wasn’t well acquainted with the laptop’s keyboard, so he used a wireless one instead. A wall-mounted flat screen TV transmitted the Macbook’s display to a gathering of 14 seated around the unadorned room. The first step, he instructed the attendees, was to create a Wikipedia account. It was this year’s first summertime meeting for Wikipedia Meetup Delhi (WMD7, to be exact), and most in attendance were newcomers. Launched in 2010, the meetups have helped train aspiring Wikipedians in Delhi the art of editing Wikipedia entries about India. While registering for an account, Rangarajan tried typing ‘baladevan’ for his username twice—but a prompt informed him that it was already being used by someone else. He tried ‘baladevan.rangarajan’ next, and this time the system accepted. Asked by the website to introduce himself to other Wikipedia users in the form of a short description, Rangarajan, with side-parted hair and thick eyebrows that slope inwards, typed that he was a public policy researcher who “loves kids and freedom”. Sweet and grand. With the formality over, Rangarajan opened his first Wikipedia page as an editor: one about Pav Bhaji. The opening sentence read: “‘Pav Bhaji’ (Marathi) is a fast food dish that originated in Marathi cuisine, and is native to Maharashtra and is popular in most metropolitan areas in India, particularly in Gujarat.” Suspicious, he noted that Pav Bhaji is not just famous in the metropolitan areas of Gujarat, but in cities in central and western India more generally. He confirmed his claim by citing Retail Franchising, a Tata McGraw Hill publication he found on Google Books that talks about the food’s popularity in central India. After all, for facts to hold, they require reliable sources. And so he rephrased the sentence: “Pav Bhaji (Marathi) is a fast food dish that originated in Marathi cuisine. It is native to Maharashtra and is popular in most metropolitan areas in India, especially in those of central and western Indian states such as Gujarat.” Much better; everybody else agreed. Rangarajan had just established a fact internationally. And, now, nobody would doubt it. The Wikipedia Foundation’s office, where Rangarajan had established Pav Bhaji’s regional specificity, is situated in a non-descript building in Hauz Khas. On a door three floors above the street, a wooden nameplate—each letter framed in a small wooden square—reads WIKIPEDIA. Inside are two rooms each with white walls and five workstations: airy and minimalist like the website. The foundation currently has five people on staff, two of which were at the meetup: Subhashish and Nupur. “We belong to diverse backgrounds,” Subhashish had said before the meetup began when there were only four people in the room. Of the 15 Wikipedians present by the end of the session, at least 11 had been trained as engineers, including Subhashish. Noopur said that women were underrepresented in the community globally—there were just three present at WMD7. “Thank god! We would have articles about shades of lipsticks otherwise,” blurted Abhishek, a lanky man with a goatee. Wikipedia was too serious to be “pink” for him. An engineering student from Ghaziabad, he described himself as a “write[r]” of poetry and philosophy, on his Wiki profile. “I have learnt everything from Wikipedia. More than from anyone else,” he added. As the group focused on the TV screen, which displayed the procedure to establish Pav Bhaji’s popularity in particular parts of India, a plump man with nascent whiskers—Roboture in his Wikipedian avatar—was surfing for more items to edit. An engineer from Jamia Millia Islamia, he surveyed the pages for ‘Poha’, ‘Dahi Bhalla’ and ‘Flattened Rice’, among others, but changed nothing. It had been one and a half hours since the meeting began, and the group was still mulling over Pav Bhaji. “The lazy bums or those unwilling to invest more time in enhancing or creating Wiki pages can start with translating already existing ent
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] PRESS: New search tool to unlock Wikipedia
A very interesting idea to extract specific information out of Wikipedia. Do have a look. -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Symonds Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:12 PM Subject: [Wmfcc-l] PRESS: New search tool to unlock Wikipedia To: Communications Committee http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21625-new-search-tool-to-unlock-wikipedia.html WOULD you like to ask Wikipedia tougher questions than today's simple keyword searches allow? A prototype plug-in that can do just that will be demonstrated at the World Wide Web conference<http://swipe.i-mozart.com/www2012demo/TR_swipe.pdf> in Lyon, France, next month. Called Swipe - loosely short for "searching Wikipedia by example" - the software aims to let users of the online encyclopedia answer complex questions that most search engines would stumble over. For example, trying to figure out "which actresses won academy awards when they were under 30 years old in the last 25 years?" becomes relatively simple when using the program. To use Swipe, questions are not typed out in the form of the natural language above, but Swipe is nevertheless designed for everyday users: no knowledge of arcane database query languages is necessary, say the developers, Maurizio Atzori at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, and Carlo Zaniolo at the University of California, Los Angeles. The pair wrote Swipe using MediaWiki, the software Wikipedia is based on, but it draws its answers from DBpedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbpedia#Example> , an expansive collection of 3.6 million data entries harvested from Wikipedia's pages. The data pop up in the info boxes on the right-hand side of Wikipedia entries, which list the details we use to describe the world, such as dates, prices, ages, heights, names, places, distances, bit rates, bytes, running times and geographical coordinates. At a very basic level, Atzori and Zaniolo use this process in reverse: Swipe "activates" those Wikipedia info boxes, allowing users to take the data in them and create a tweaked version, and in doing so calls up pages that match that altered information. For example, says Atzori: "Imagine you want to search for all Wikipedia pages about singers from North America who are younger than 20." With Swipe running, you go to an example of a known singer's page - Lady Gaga's, say - and in the "Born" field overwrite her age of 25 with "<20" and replace "New York, New York" with "North America". Swipe then automatically converts that into a DBpedia query that returns a page with a list of entries that match your requirements. In a demo video, the pair show how to use pop singer Robbie Williams's Wikipedia page to find a list of "musicians" with the first name "Mike" who don't play "poprock" - by overwriting his name and occupation, and placing the construct "un" before the genre "poprock" (watch the video above). Swipe could easily be made available as an option on Wikipedia one day, says Atzori. "I like the idea because of its simplicity and the way it uses familiar Wikipedia info boxes to construct powerful queries," says Nigel Shadbolt<http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/nrs> , head of the web and internet science group at the University of Southampton, UK. "Structured data resources like DBpedia represent a really rich knowledge base," he adds, but they are difficult for the average internet user to take advantage of. "If we could build a query engine that's usable by all, that would be a real winner," he says. Richard Symonds Office & Development Manager Wikimedia UK+44 (0) 207 065 0992 -- Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable Company Registered in England and Wales, No: 6741827. Charity No:1144513 Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. ___ Wmfcc-l mailing list wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfcc-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
Dear Srikanth, Surely, Will add the links at the end of the mail. The link to Nepali Wikipedia's page is here<http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%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:Wikimedia_India_Newsletter/2011_June>again. Regarding Marathi and Urdu, I wasn't subscribed there yet. But, have forwarded the mails there and posted on village pump as you suggested. Look forward to sharing Tamil Wikipedia stories. [1]http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%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:Wikimedia_India_Newsletter/2011_June Thanks Regards Noopur On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 14:44, Noopur Raval wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. > > > Great to hear about the revival, shall pitch in some bytes for tamil now > and then. Got some requests for you. > > >> Here >> <http://This%20should%20go%20on%20India%20and%20Indic%20mailing%20lists%20%28except%20for%20Marathi%20&%20Urdu%29%20and%20the%20respective%20village%20pumps%20%28except%20for%20Marathi%20&%20Urdu%29%2E%20%20In%20addition,%20the%20mail%20can%20then%20be%20forwarded%20by%20Noopur%20to%20as%20many%20editors%20as%20possible%20%28and%20by%20Shiju%20too%2E%29%20%20I%27m%20writing%20with%20regard%20to%20Wikipatrika%2E%20%20For%20the%20folks%20who%20don%27t%20know,%20this%20is%20the%20community%20newsletter%20which%20has%20come%20out%20twice%20%28in%20September%202010%20&%20%20June%202011%29%20%20It%27s%20a%20really%20wonderful%20way%20documenting%20and%20celebrating%20the%20amazing%20work%20done%20by%20so%20many%20community%20members%20across%20so%20many%20communities%20in%20the%20various%20projects%2E%20%20It%20helps%20share%20ideas%20with%20and%20helps%20pick%20up%20ideas%20from%20other%20communities%2E%20%20%20%20I%20think%20Wikipatrika%20is%20something%20that%20could%20be%20more%20frequent%20-%20given%20the%20range%20of%20activities%20across%20communities%20-%20and%20I%27d%20like%20to%20support%20it%2E%20%20In%20this%20regard,%20I%20approached%20all%20the%20editors%20who%20were%20involved%20in%20the%20previous%202%20issues%20to%20ask%20their%20interest%20in%20bringing%20out%20the%20next%20one%20in%20end%20April%20or%20early%20May%20covering%20Jan%20-%20Mar%202012,%20and%20to%20see%20if%20we%20can%20make%20it%20more%20regular%20%28potentially%20every%20quarter%2E%29%20%205%20community%20members%20from%20different%20languages%20have%20already%20offered%20to%20help%2E%20%20Anther%20community%20member%20will%20setup%20a%20template%20that%20all%20languages%20can%20use%20%28on%20the%20chapter%20wiki%29%20%20I%20have%20also%20started%20reaching%20out%20to%20editors%20who%20might%20not%20have%20been%20involved%20before,%20and%20hence%20this%20mail%2E%20%20The%20template%20for%20Wikipatrika%20will%20be%20ready%20only%20by%20April%202nd%20week%2E%20%20In%20the%20meantime,%20can%20I%20ask%20whoever%20is%20interested%20to%20create%20a%20page%20on%20their%20respective%20languages%20wikipedias%20and%20start%20sharing%20stories%20and%20updates%20on%20this%20page%2E%20%20I%27d%20encourage%20everyone%20to%20write%20these%20in%20whatever%20language%20they%20are%20comfortable%20in%20to%20begin%20with%2E%20%20%20%28Once%20the%20template%20is%20set%20up%20on%20Chapter%20Wiki,%20these%20individual%20pages%20could%20then%20be%20posted%20there%2E%29%20%20To%20start%20off,%20you%20could%20start%20with%20the%20following%20sections%20%28which%20I%27m%20illustrating%20using%20the%20Bengali%20page%20from%20a%20previous%20Wikipatrika%29,%20and%20just%20start%20adding%20content%2E%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20General%20overview%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikipedia%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikisource%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wiktionary%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikibooks%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20News%20reports%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Any%20other%20section%28s%29%20you%20want%20to%20add%20%20Please%20do%20add%20as%20much%20as%20you%20want%20on%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Updates%20on%20the%20various%20projects%20%20%20%20%20Landmarks,%20birthdays,%20celebrations,%20events,%20conferences,%20%20etc%20between%20Jan-Mar%202012%20%20%20%20%20Reports%20on%20outreach%20sessions%20conducted%20%20%20%20%20Links%20to%20meetups%20and%20where%20to%20find%20the%20next%20ones%20%20%20%20%20Please%20feel%20free%20to%20add%20sections%20that%20you%20think%20would%20be%20nice%2E%20%20I%20could%20suggest%20%22Featured%20Wikimedians%22%20and%20%22Featured%20Newbies%22%20as%20examples%2E%20%20After%20you%20set%20up%20the%20page,%20please%20do%20post%20this%20on%20your%20respective%20village%20pumps%20or%20mailing%20lists%20and%20any%20other%20forums%20so%20that%20all%20community%20members%20know%2E%20%20Please%20do%20share%20the%20page%20with%20me%20%28offlist%29%20so%20I%20can%20help%20out%20too
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
ividual%20pages%20could%20then%20be%20posted%20there%2E%29%20%20To%20start%20off,%20you%20could%20start%20with%20the%20following%20sections%20%28which%20I%27m%20illustrating%20using%20the%20Bengali%20page%20from%20a%20previous%20Wikipatrika%29,%20and%20just%20start%20adding%20content%2E%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20General%20overview%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikipedia%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikisource%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wiktionary%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikibooks%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20News%20reports%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Any%20other%20section%28s%29%20you%20want%20to%20add%20%20Please%20do%20add%20as%20much%20as%20you%20want%20on%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Updates%20on%20the%20various%20projects%20%20%20%20%20Landmarks,%20birthdays,%20celebrations,%20events,%20conferences,%20%20etc%20between%20Jan-Mar%202012%20%20%20%20%20Reports%20on%20outreach%20sessions%20conducted%20%20%20%20%20Links%20to%20meetups%20and%20where%20to%20find%20the%20next%20ones%20%20%20%20%20Please%20feel%20free%20to%20add%20sections%20that%20you%20think%20would%20be%20nice%2E%20%20I%20could%20suggest%20%22Featured%20Wikimedians%22%20and%20%22Featured%20Newbies%22%20as%20examples%2E%20%20After%20you%20set%20up%20the%20page,%20please%20do%20post%20this%20on%20your%20respective%20village%20pumps%20or%20mailing%20lists%20and%20any%20other%20forums%20so%20that%20all%20community%20members%20know%2E%20%20Please%20do%20share%20the%20page%20with%20me%20%28offlist%29%20so%20I%20can%20help%20out%20too%2E%20%20If%20you%20are%20facing%20any%20difficulties,%20please%20do%20not%20hesitate%20to%20contact%20me%20%28noo...@wikimedia.org%29/>is how the Nepali community did it last time. After you set up the page, please do post this on your respective village pumps or mailing lists and any other forums so that all community members know. Please do share the page with me (offlist) so I can help out too. If you would like to help but are not sure how, or if you are facing any kind of difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact me ( noo...@wikimedia.org) Regards Noopur ___ 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] Blog post on Netha Hussain/ Introduction to Storytelling
Dear all, To celebrate Women's History Month, I thought it would be really nice to celebrate an Indian woman editor's story. A short story on User: Netha Hussain was posted on the WMF blog<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/> . (Netha is an editor on Malayalam Wikipedia, has been involved in women topics and recently coordinated the first women's edit-a-thon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon> in India.) While I was preparing this, I was wondering if we could make story-telling of this nature a regular feature, and see how it can support community building. We could do a series of short profiles of editors - in the form of stories - covering your life as well as your wiki journey. The intent is to reflect the diversity of our community - language, age, profession, projects. I am going to try and bring out at least one such story every month - but we can always try and work on as many more as we can get. I am already looking for new story ideas and would love to hear from interested community folks. Here is how it works. I prepare a short set of questions and points for the story and send it across to you. Once you reply, I draft out a story and send it back for your approval. After we make necessary changes to the draft, I can publish it. If you are ok, we can also look at forwarding these stories to the local media as well. Please do write to me at nra...@wikimedia.org and let's start working on your story! Don't forget to go through the Netha's story<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/>; it's really inspiring! Regards, Noopur Raval ___ 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-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum
Yes, I've told them the same. There are a few issues: 1) The library is open only on weekdays and 2) The staff members also work on weekdays only But, we were not disheartened because this is a start. Now we know what to build upon. Maybe Srikanth you could 'adopt' one of the editors and work collaboratively. Just an idea. :) Thanks noopur On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulations you guys! We'll now get to work with the Commons > backend along with the Wikipedia front end. Please provide as detailed > information as possible, so that we can work on translations as well. > > -- > 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 > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum
Forwarding the GLAM meetup report! Thanks for your call Arun! Those guys were really excited to see cross-city Wikipedians calling. -- Forwarded message -- From: Abhishek Tiwari Date: Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:28 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-del] GLAM meetup 1: Crafts museum To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear rockstars, I am thrilled to inform you about our successful GLAM meetup at the National Crafts Museum, New Delhi on 18th March, Sunday. We met at 2 p.m. and took a walk around all the galleries and exhibits. We had a total of 14 participants including Subhashish and Noopur who are existing volunteers. By 3:30 we had looked around and spotted articles of interest like Gond painting, Mandana painting, Shekhawati painting etcetera. It was great to see a diversity in editing interests since there were 4 editors who actually worked particularly on Hindi articles. More information regarding our activities can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Crafts_Museum_Meet The Director of the museum, Dr Ruchira Ghose had allowed us to take pictures in all galleries. This comes as a move to release permissions to photograph art objects and upload them under CC licensing. From 3:30 to 5:30 we were editing different pages, most importantly learning how to reference so that our edits are not deleted. The deputy director, Ms Nidhi was also around to help us navigate through the place. We hope to continue meeting at least once a month. Now, that we've assigned specific galleries to groups of two, we're expecting some pretty insightful research. Moreover, it will make more sense to first focus and specialize in a particular kind of art. In subsequent phases, we plan to shuffle it all up to get rich perspectives from others on the subjects too. Also, this would give us a flexibility of approaching the museum at times best suited to *our* schedules. I would love if some experienced editors interacted with us and guided our efforts too! Thank you, Regards -- abhishek ___ Wikimedia-in-del mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-del -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Dear Pradeep, I think you suggested INTACH, so I followed it up. Have sent them a mail and was searching thru their listings. A few cities do have comprehensive listing so we can expand our own list. Could I suggest that we start a list on our Wiki somewhere? That way we can draw upon sources and make our own big list. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > Heya all, > > glad to see this discussion happening! It means people care, and caring > people is good! The list is there of course for your needs. We just set it > up as a copy of the Dutch list, but you can make any adjustments to it that > mailman will allow. Also, right now I'm admin, and I would also be happy to > expand that to someone else - but maybe that is for later. > > The list is mainly intended to make your life easier. In NL we indeed > chose to keep private archives but open subscription - that way keeping it > out of google, but anyone who wanted to join discussion could just do so > and see the archive. That was like Noopur explained indeed mainly to avoid > that discussions about partners end up on a private mail with many people > in cc. So yeah, there are reasons - but it is up to you as a team to decide > whether you want to maintain the status quo :) > > Best, > > Lodewijk > > No dia 16 de Março de 2012 07:48, Noopur escreveu: > > Not really but when Lodewijk offered to create this list, we had a couple >> of concerns like communicating with organizations and exploring >> possibilities of partnership (because WLM participants have done that in >> the past). So, I wasn't sure if these conversations should be public. >> However, now that we have substantial number of people on the list, we >> could just take a vote and figure out the best combination. >> Regards >> Noopur >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan > > wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur wrote: >>> >>>> We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments >>>> list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: >>>> wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. >>>> >>> >>> Is there a reason the archives should to be private? >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> Srikanth.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 >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Noopur Raval >> Student >> Arts and Aesthetics >> Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi >> Ph: 9650567690 >> >> >> ___ >> 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Not really but when Lodewijk offered to create this list, we had a couple of concerns like communicating with organizations and exploring possibilities of partnership (because WLM participants have done that in the past). So, I wasn't sure if these conversations should be public. However, now that we have substantial number of people on the list, we could just take a vote and figure out the best combination. Regards Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur wrote: > >> We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list >> just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: >> wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. >> > > Is there a reason the archives should to be private? > > -- > Regards > Srikanth.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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Dear Anirudh, We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Just passing it for your information so that we can have more focused discussions there. Thanks! Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > FYI. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Lodewijk > Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:27 AM > Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate? > To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed > subscription)" > > > Hi all, > we're well on our way getting started with Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! > (feel free to forward) > > For those that don't know what Wiki Loves Monuments is all about, > please read this blog post > [ > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/02/165000-photos-submitted-during-second-annual-wiki-love-monuments-photography-contest/ > ] > on the WMF blog and this page about how the concept works > [ > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Documentation#Concept > ]; > here's also a small introduction to the main idea of the contest and > what's awaiting us this year. > > == Wiki Loves Monuments in a nutshell == > The photo competition around physical cultural heritage (buildings, > bridges, etc.) is running in September, organized in numerous > countries around the world. The contest is being organized in each > country separately, allowing to play to the local needs and wishes, > but is joined by an umbrella contest for the whole world making it all > a bit more exciting. Last year the contest was organized in 18 > countries, and brought in 165.000 images by 5000 uploaders. More > importantly, 4000 of these uploaders never uploaded anything before! > > == Is your country participating? Helping hands are needed! == > For 2012 already 24 countries > [ > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Participating_countries > ] > indicated that they will definitely participate, and 16 more say they > possibly will participate. Please take a look at the list, and see > whether your country is already there. If you would like to help > organize this contest in your country, please join the team that > signed up for it (often through a chapter or a local group) or start > your own organizing group if there is none yet! Interested countries > for example include India, United States, Chile, Sweden and Italy. > > == So, why would you want to organize a WLM in your country? == > Well, of course there are the images – it is great to have good images > available of your country. But more importantly perhaps is the amount > of individuals that might participate! Hundreds, maybe thousands of > people who never contributed before can now help out with what they > are best at: making photos. They often find it fun, and might hang > around a bit longer if we receive them well. It also is a good > opportunity to get in touch with local cultural heritage institutions. > > Finally, it is a good way to try and forge a local community to > organize events together. It is an existing framework you can use, and > although there are no guarantees, working in an international context > like this (the largest collaboration between chapters and other > Wikimedia organizations so far!) helps a lot to keep people motivated > and close to each other. An international group will be helping > interested groups with the basic infrastructure and other things, and > on a national level, you can focus on the organizing of your own > contest, lists and communications. > > == Join the team and get started! == > If you want to know more, feel free to leave a > message[ > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012] > or send us an email. But make sure to get started now if you're > interested - because some parts of the work just require quite some > time since external parties are involved. We would be delighted to > help you out in any way possible to pull off this event. > > Best, > Lodewijk > (on behalf of the international coordinating team) > > > ___ > Internal-l mailing list > interna...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-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 > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon
Okay, will hang out with the 'wikichix' and tell you :P
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
> Noopur, thanks for understanding and your kind note.
>
> I would request you to discuss with other women editors during the
> Wiki-Edit-a-thon and come up with a recommendation. I think it is best that
> you decide for yourselves.
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> ------
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Noopur wrote:
>
>> Hey Ashwin!
>> I don't think anyone who is active on this list will misunderstand your
>> mail. :) We've had discussions before on how a lot of positions cause
>> confusion and I also want someone who can dedicate enough time and
>> attention to work on this project. So, no hard feelings on my part. I also
>> saw your Wikipatrika Meta suggestion (going OT here). Since I will be
>> taking that up, my hands are really full anyway.
>> Anyway, I'd want to be the backup in case you need any short term help. I
>> am grateful for your considerate explanation though :) In the meanwhile, we
>> have a list of women Wikipedians. Naveen can suggest a name or two that can
>> be approached?
>> Regards
>> Noopur
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur > > wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to publicly say that I have erred in naming Noopur here. I
>>> did not mean to cast any aspersion on her and her good work and track
>>> record. I thought that since she is a publicly known figure with
>>> responsibilities and good work done in so many spheres - GLAM, Delhi
>>> community and now in India Programs, that it would be an example of an
>>> already dedicated person whereas I preferred someone new who was not
>>> already committed.
>>>
>>> I now see that I was wrong to name a specific person. The text can be
>>> misconstrued as a negative by those who dont know Noopur or her qualities.
>>> Also Noopur never aspired to the post. I'm sure if she had chooses to do
>>> it, she would do it wonderfully well.
>>>
>>> My deepest apologies to you, Noopur for causing you distress and
>>> embarrassment.
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Ashwin Baindur
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Ashwin Baindur <
>>> ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On a related note, we are looking for a women volunteer coordinator for
>>>> Women and Gender Issues Task Force on WikiProject India.
>>>>
>>>> The only QRs are :
>>>> * Lady editor.
>>>> * Enthusiastic and willing to take up the role.
>>>> * Not involved with other Wikipedia responsibilities. (For example,
>>>> User:Noopur28 would not be recommended due to her large involvements
>>>> already with GLAM & IP).
>>>>
>>>> Please reply on list if you meet the QR and would like to take up this
>>>> challenging appointment.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>
>>>> Ashwin Baindur
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur <
>>>> ashwin.bain...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As a miniscule gesture of support to you fabulous ladies, I looked for
>>>>> a prominent Indian woman without an image, located an image and uploaded
>>>>> it
>>>>> to Commons and the article.
>>>>>
>>>>> I found the Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu, had no worthwhile
>>>>> image. Maragret Bourke-White's image ex Life Archive is copyright free in
>>>>> India and I have uploaded that under {{pd-India}} and it now graces the
>>>>> article.
>>>>>
>>>>> I request all editors to do small things like this even if you are not
>>>>> able to edit major articles or help in other ways.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also request all editors of the Tag & Assess drive 2011 to recheck
>>>>> their assessments and add "gender=yes" for articles on women, children and
>>>>> related issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> Warm regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ashwin Baindur
>>>>> --
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon
Hey Ashwin!
I don't think anyone who is active on this list will misunderstand your
mail. :) We've had discussions before on how a lot of positions cause
confusion and I also want someone who can dedicate enough time and
attention to work on this project. So, no hard feelings on my part. I also
saw your Wikipatrika Meta suggestion (going OT here). Since I will be
taking that up, my hands are really full anyway.
Anyway, I'd want to be the backup in case you need any short term help. I
am grateful for your considerate explanation though :) In the meanwhile, we
have a list of women Wikipedians. Naveen can suggest a name or two that can
be approached?
Regards
Noopur
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
> I would like to publicly say that I have erred in naming Noopur here. I
> did not mean to cast any aspersion on her and her good work and track
> record. I thought that since she is a publicly known figure with
> responsibilities and good work done in so many spheres - GLAM, Delhi
> community and now in India Programs, that it would be an example of an
> already dedicated person whereas I preferred someone new who was not
> already committed.
>
> I now see that I was wrong to name a specific person. The text can be
> misconstrued as a negative by those who dont know Noopur or her qualities.
> Also Noopur never aspired to the post. I'm sure if she had chooses to do
> it, she would do it wonderfully well.
>
> My deepest apologies to you, Noopur for causing you distress and
> embarrassment.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> --
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Ashwin Baindur
> wrote:
>
>> On a related note, we are looking for a women volunteer coordinator for
>> Women and Gender Issues Task Force on WikiProject India.
>>
>> The only QRs are :
>> * Lady editor.
>> * Enthusiastic and willing to take up the role.
>> * Not involved with other Wikipedia responsibilities. (For example,
>> User:Noopur28 would not be recommended due to her large involvements
>> already with GLAM & IP).
>>
>> Please reply on list if you meet the QR and would like to take up this
>> challenging appointment.
>>
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur
>> --
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur > > wrote:
>>
>>> As a miniscule gesture of support to you fabulous ladies, I looked for a
>>> prominent Indian woman without an image, located an image and uploaded it
>>> to Commons and the article.
>>>
>>> I found the Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu, had no worthwhile
>>> image. Maragret Bourke-White's image ex Life Archive is copyright free in
>>> India and I have uploaded that under {{pd-India}} and it now graces the
>>> article.
>>>
>>> I request all editors to do small things like this even if you are not
>>> able to edit major articles or help in other ways.
>>>
>>> I also request all editors of the Tag & Assess drive 2011 to recheck
>>> their assessments and add "gender=yes" for articles on women, children and
>>> related issues.
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
>>> Ashwin Baindur
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:14 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
>>> tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "*Why shud girls have all the fun ? *" :D
>>>>
>>>> Just kidding ! Nice initiative ... All the best wishes!
>>>>
>>>> On a related note, it is good to find reasons on why Wikipedia attract
>>>> very less woman editors ( much less in India than global benchmarks) and
>>>> how to solve this gender gap.
>>>> Thoughts ?
>>>>
>>>> -TC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Noopur wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for pulling this together Netha :) I am in!
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Noopur
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Netha Hussain >>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Pradeep.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We will be working on 1-4 articles depending upon the volunteer
>>>>>> turnout. I am thinking of conducting a similar Edit-a-thon in Malayalam
>>>>>> Wikipedia. I
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Telugu article count crosses 50, 000
Dear all Telugu Wikipedians, Chhala Baundi :P Congratulations on this landmark achievement! It is a joyous opportunity and an example that all of us can certainly learn from. I was wondering if I could be of any help to write a small blog post that traces the story of Telugu Wikipedia and its contributors. Its just a thought, would love to help document this success story :) Regards Noopur 2012/3/14 Shiju Alex > Congrats to all Telugu Wikipedians. > > Telugu wikipedia is the 3rd Indic Language wikipedia to cross the 50,000 > article milestone. > > As Naveen mentioned it would be nice if you could create a banner and use > that for outreach. Please let me know if you require support on this. > > Shiju > > > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:03 AM, రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ > 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 >> >> >> ___ >> 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] [Press] Census 2011: Mobile and internet users in India
Dear all, Stories of Census 2011 reveal interesting figures on mobile phone and internet usage. While it is a sorry situation to see the lack of basic amenities, it is impressive to see the extent of mobile phone reach. Pasting the insightful snippets. *THE Hindu: Half of India's homes have cellphones, but not toilets* "In stark contrast, 63.2 per cent of the households own a telephone connection — 53.2 per cent of mobile phones...The data cast light on the changing character of the media. There has been a 16 per cent increase in the number of households watching television, but a 15 per cent decline in the use of radios and transistors. A total of 47.2 per cent of households own a television; only 19.9 per cent have either radio or transistors."* * [Link:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/article2992640.ece] *Deccan Herald: Most Indians lack amenities: Census* "Use of telephones, mainly mobiles, has rapidly increased with 48 per cent people in rural areas carrying mobiles and 76 per cent in urban areas. Around six per cent of households have the privilege of using both – mobile and land line telephones...Less than one out of ten households in the country have computer or laptop with only three per cent having internet facility."* * [Link: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/234091/half-indians-defecate-open-more.html ] Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. Regards Noopur Raval Communications, Consultant India Programs ___ 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] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
Alrighty! Thanks :) On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Béria Lima wrote: > I think you didn't understand him Noopur. He asked you (and i'm quoting): > > *Please use as far as possible the category of the regarding >> city/town/village or district (if there's no category) etc., or, a >> localized better 'fitting' i.e. the 'most fitting"' category(ies). Do >> not add - in addition - the categories of the "parent category", among them >> cities, states and countries etc.* >> > > Or in other words: Don't add a cat and a sub-cat. Like the cake and > birthday cake case, you only need to put in one, so if is a Birthday Cake, > use only this category. People who want to see a birthday cake and get to > category Cake, will have a link to the sub cat. > > Same goes to categories like India - state - city - event. If the event > is in city X (Let's use Delhi for example) you don't need to add as well > the cat for the city, state and Country in the image. That is called over > categorization. > > But if you have a birthday cake for a party in Delhi in the event (again > example): Wikipedia 10. You can - and you should - add the cat to the > event AND the category for the cake. > > If you wanna see an example of a image with several categories but not > overcategorized you can see this one for example: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%C3%A9ria_at_Bom_Jesus_do_Monte.jpgwho > have 6 categories, but none is subcat of another. > _ > * > * > > *[image: Inline images 1]* > > *Béria Lima* > > * * > > * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter > livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* > > > > *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>** > > > > > > > > * > ** <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* > > > On 13 March 2012 15:24, Noopur wrote: > >> Dear Beria, >> >> Here is the message this user left: >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Noopur28#Your_uploads_in_December_2011.2C_referring_to_India_:_Categorisation >> >> >> My logic for adding 3-4 categories was that people usually search by >> keywords and not inside larger categories. So I would add around 3-4 >> categories. But, then this user told me to stick to larger parent >> categories. I am still unsure which is a better way so I stick to only >> India or a state category now. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Béria Lima wrote: >> >>> Who asked you that and why? >>> >>> You can add as much categories as you see fit, as long as they aren't >>> redundant (Like add the categories "Cakes" and "Bithday cakes" to the same >>> image). >>> >>> I would like the message when someone asked you that >>> _ >>> * >>> * >>> >>> *[image: Inline images 1]* >>> >>> *Béria Lima* >>> >>> * * >>> >>> * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter >>> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* >>> >>> >>> >>> *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>** >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> * >>> ** <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* >>> >>> >>> On 13 March 2012 14:52, Noopur wrote: >>> >>>> All help is welcome, >>>> these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if >>>> they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new >>>> one you can create those and add the cat to these files. >>>> >>>> Though, I would suggest we all refrain from adding too many categories. >>>> I was asked on Commons not to add more than 1-2 categories. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Anirudh Bhati >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. >>>>> We kept >>>>> > the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It >>>>> was >>>>> > decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us >>>>> really got >>>>> > around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad ca
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
She deserves some virtual tiramisu for that :) Thanks Beria! On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > Beria, you are GOD. She moved all the media to [[Category:Wikipedia takes > Ahmedabad 1]] with Cat-a-lot. Also, I made an error again, > [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] should be a sub-cat of > [[Category:Ahmedabad]], so there is no need to add both. > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Béria Lima wrote: > >> Who asked you that and why? >> >> You can add as much categories as you see fit, as long as they aren't >> redundant (Like add the categories "Cakes" and "Bithday cakes" to the same >> image). >> >> I would like the message when someone asked you that >> _ >> * >> * >> >> *[image: Inline images 1]* >> >> *Béria Lima* >> >> * * >> >> * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter >> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* >> >> >> >> *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>** >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> * >> ** <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* >> >> >> On 13 March 2012 14:52, Noopur wrote: >> >>> All help is welcome, >>> these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if >>> they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new >>> one you can create those and add the cat to these files. >>> >>> Though, I would suggest we all refrain from adding too many categories. >>> I was asked on Commons not to add more than 1-2 categories. >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur >>>> wrote: >>>> > Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. >>>> We kept >>>> > the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It >>>> was >>>> > decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us >>>> really got >>>> > around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning >>>> up. >>>> > There are several reasons for this: >>>> >>>> It was clearly not your fault. You are a new user and I should have >>>> migrated these files to the regular categories. I am now removing >>>> [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] and replacing with it [[Category:Ahmedabad]] >>>> and [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]]. All help is welcome, >>>> these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if >>>> they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new >>>> one you can create those and add the cat to these files. I'm no >>>> expert on Commons categorization, but there are a bunch of helpful >>>> power users available on #wikipedia-en and #wikimedia-commons who can >>>> help you out with that. >>>> >>>> We decided to go with [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] instead of >>>> [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] because we assumed that would >>>> make it easier for the users to add these categories easily. >>>> >>>> > >>>> > 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event >>>> to make >>>> > Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. >>>> >>>> Indeed. A few good images made it to the articles, while a couple of >>>> images inspired creation of articles around important monuments. See >>>> [[Hutheesing Jain Temple]] (and thanks Srikeit for that). >>>> >>>> > >>>> > 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be >>>> > migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, >>>> I/We are >>>> > no one to judge whose image stays or goes. >>>> >>>> Yes, indeed. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> anirudh >>>> >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > ___ >>>> > 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] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
Dear Beria, Here is the message this user left: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Noopur28#Your_uploads_in_December_2011.2C_referring_to_India_:_Categorisation My logic for adding 3-4 categories was that people usually search by keywords and not inside larger categories. So I would add around 3-4 categories. But, then this user told me to stick to larger parent categories. I am still unsure which is a better way so I stick to only India or a state category now. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Béria Lima wrote: > Who asked you that and why? > > You can add as much categories as you see fit, as long as they aren't > redundant (Like add the categories "Cakes" and "Bithday cakes" to the same > image). > > I would like the message when someone asked you that > _ > * > * > > *[image: Inline images 1]* > > *Béria Lima* > > * * > > * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter > livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* > > > > *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>** > > > > > > > > * > ** <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* > > > On 13 March 2012 14:52, Noopur wrote: > >> All help is welcome, >> these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if >> they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new >> one you can create those and add the cat to these files. >> >> Though, I would suggest we all refrain from adding too many categories. I >> was asked on Commons not to add more than 1-2 categories. >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur wrote: >>> > Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. >>> We kept >>> > the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was >>> > decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really >>> got >>> > around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. >>> > There are several reasons for this: >>> >>> It was clearly not your fault. You are a new user and I should have >>> migrated these files to the regular categories. I am now removing >>> [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] and replacing with it [[Category:Ahmedabad]] >>> and [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]]. All help is welcome, >>> these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if >>> they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new >>> one you can create those and add the cat to these files. I'm no >>> expert on Commons categorization, but there are a bunch of helpful >>> power users available on #wikipedia-en and #wikimedia-commons who can >>> help you out with that. >>> >>> We decided to go with [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] instead of >>> [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] because we assumed that would >>> make it easier for the users to add these categories easily. >>> >>> > >>> > 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event >>> to make >>> > Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. >>> >>> Indeed. A few good images made it to the articles, while a couple of >>> images inspired creation of articles around important monuments. See >>> [[Hutheesing Jain Temple]] (and thanks Srikeit for that). >>> >>> > >>> > 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be >>> > migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, >>> I/We are >>> > no one to judge whose image stays or goes. >>> >>> Yes, indeed. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> anirudh >>> >>> > >>> > >>> > ___ >>> > 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 >>> >> >> >> >> -- &g
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
Arrey no. Chill ya. You are our biggest success story of the photothon :P This comment was generally regarding how too many images can make us all lazy. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Konarak Ratnakar wrote: > Hey Noopur, > If I sounded accusing, I apologize for that. I was going to do this > categorization work and saw this mail here. > And Anirudh, I'm on it, I'll add/create proper categories to the images. > > > From: anirudh...@gmail.com > > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:19:38 +0530 > > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and > other events > > > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur wrote: > > > Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. > We kept > > > the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was > > > decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really > got > > > around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. > > > There are several reasons for this: > > > > It was clearly not your fault. You are a new user and I should have > > migrated these files to the regular categories. I am now removing > > [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] and replacing with it [[Category:Ahmedabad]] > > and [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]]. All help is welcome, > > these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if > > they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new > > one you can create those and add the cat to these files. I'm no > > expert on Commons categorization, but there are a bunch of helpful > > power users available on #wikipedia-en and #wikimedia-commons who can > > help you out with that. > > > > We decided to go with [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] instead of > > [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] because we assumed that would > > make it easier for the users to add these categories easily. > > > > > > > > 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event > to make > > > Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. > > > > Indeed. A few good images made it to the articles, while a couple of > > images inspired creation of articles around important monuments. See > > [[Hutheesing Jain Temple]] (and thanks Srikeit for that). > > > > > > > > 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be > > > migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, > I/We are > > > no one to judge whose image stays or goes. > > > > Yes, indeed. > > > > Thanks, > > anirudh > > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > > 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
All help is welcome, these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new one you can create those and add the cat to these files. Though, I would suggest we all refrain from adding too many categories. I was asked on Commons not to add more than 1-2 categories. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur wrote: > > Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. We > kept > > the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was > > decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really > got > > around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. > > There are several reasons for this: > > It was clearly not your fault. You are a new user and I should have > migrated these files to the regular categories. I am now removing > [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] and replacing with it [[Category:Ahmedabad]] > and [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]]. All help is welcome, > these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if > they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new > one you can create those and add the cat to these files. I'm no > expert on Commons categorization, but there are a bunch of helpful > power users available on #wikipedia-en and #wikimedia-commons who can > help you out with that. > > We decided to go with [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] instead of > [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] because we assumed that would > make it easier for the users to add these categories easily. > > > > > 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event to > make > > Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. > > Indeed. A few good images made it to the articles, while a couple of > images inspired creation of articles around important monuments. See > [[Hutheesing Jain Temple]] (and thanks Srikeit for that). > > > > > 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be > > migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, I/We > are > > no one to judge whose image stays or goes. > > Yes, indeed. > > Thanks, > anirudh > > > > > > > ___ > > 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 > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. We kept the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really got around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. There are several reasons for this: 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event to make Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be migrated because of course some are repetitive and redundant. But, I/We are no one to judge whose image stays or goes. 3) Since then and since the Tamil Wikimedia contest I have been contemplating on things: How can we minimize and optimize image uploads? Can we set parameters in the contest format so that everyone can contribute but its more diverse in terms of results? Maybe we should generate a more exhaustive list of items? Also, are there guidelines for maintenance that we can make (5-7 points) so that the organizers can follow that up too (just in case they aren't aware or don't know how to)? Do let me know what you guys think! Regards Noopur On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Konarak Ratnakar wrote: > Agreed, I wasn't involved in editing until the Ahmedabad photowalk > happened, else I'd have helped. > I suggest we should segregate the photos in sub categories, while keeping > track of those identical images that should be deleted. > > Konarak Ratnakar | kondi > -- > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:09:10 +0530 > From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other > events > > > Yes, Konark. But I do not want to point figures to one event. In my view > all events are culprits. > > Imagine the problem of processing 15K images of the Tamil contest - I > shudder to think! > > Suggestion : No image should be considered eligible for competition till > it is uploaded with : > * proper description. > * suggested/recommended article for image use or for creation. > * proper categorisation in Commons. > > Have volunteers available to help photographers. The photothon should end > in an uploading function where volunteers help in these aspects. > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > -- > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Konarak Ratnakar wrote: > > The question just got asked when I was about to ask it. > > The problem is that the organisers end their activities with the upload of > hundreds of images. The cleanup is expected to be done by un-named, unknown > others. The encyclopedic value of the images that the people took in the > photothon never get realised. > > > The organisers of any photothon must realise that the photothon should end > only after the Juice is squeezed out of each image. Better to have 50 good > images, catalogued and embellishing articles than thousands "[[waiting for > Godot]]". > > > Take a look at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_1 you're > talking about something like this, right Ashwin? > > Konarak Ratnakar | kondi > > ___ > 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon
Thanks for pulling this together Netha :) I am in! Regards Noopur On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Netha Hussain wrote: > Thanks Pradeep. > > We will be working on 1-4 articles depending upon the volunteer turnout. I > am thinking of conducting a similar Edit-a-thon in Malayalam Wikipedia. If > anybody else would like to conduct WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon's in other Indic > languages, please let me know. Together, we shall celebrate the Women's > month! > > > In WikiLove, > Netha Hussain > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < > pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Netha, >> >> Great initiative! >> >> Wondering why you're limiting yourself to one article? Why not do >> multiple articles in small groups of 3 to 4 people? Also, why not do it >> across languages as well? >> >> It might get slightly messy but will be more fun and might foster some >> healthy competition between the groups as well :) >> >> Pradeep >> Handheld >> On Mar 13, 2012 8:36 PM, "Netha Hussain" wrote: >> >>> >>> Hey All, >>> >>> I am writing to invite each one of you to India WikiWomen's >>> Edit-a-Thon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon>that >>> has been scheduled for 25th March 2012, Sunday from 12:00pm to 2:00pm. >>> It's probably not possible for all of us to meet physically to celebrate >>> Women's Month but we all meet virtually - online! >>> >>> During the two hour time slot we all will be editing an article which >>> will be pre-selected by way of nomination and votes. Depending on the >>> number of members joining in we can also organise an IRC meet to meet each >>> other before and during the event. >>> >>> Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women, >>> new editors, all those who relate to women's history or women's issues, >>> those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone >>> with an interest in women's history are particularly encouraged to attend. >>> >>> Please sign Up >>> here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon#Sign_up>and >>> suggest and vote for articles >>> here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon#Article_Selection>. >>> Nomination for articles will be closed by 22nd of March and the voting will >>> be closed by 24th March. Hurry! :) >>> >>> Thanks Nitika <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t>, for >>> bringing up this idea! >>> >>> I welcome all of you to participate by editing subjects about women's >>> history and more. Everyone is welcome! >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> -- >>> Netha Hussain >>> User : Netha Hussain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain>on >>> Wikiprojects >>> Student of Medicine and Surgery >>> Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode >>> Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com >>> swethaambari.wordpress.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 >> >> > > > -- > Netha Hussain > > Student of Medicine and Surgery > Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode > > Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com > swethaambari.wordpress.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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] WikiWomen's History Month
Speaking in personal capacity, for me it was a delightful moment to edit Dance in India as INCOTM last month. That was a celebratory moment as far as women's participation goes. Although I do understand that this is something more symbolic about March, it was a nice thing to do in Feb and maybe continue every few months. Just a thought though. Cheers Noopur On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > We had created the gender task force to give women editors a platform and > I sent out messages to women editors. Sadly, nothing came up though > Bishakha did some footwork and outreach for the recruitment of a new set of > women editors, but I think that's yet to happen > . > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > -- > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Pradeep Mohandas < > pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> hi, >> >> Sad to see not even one event organised in India - >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month for >> this. >> >> The only event in Asia is in Dubai, so far. Hope that changes soon. >> >> Pradeep >> >> -- >> How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 >> >> >> >> ___ >> 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] New version of Malayalam fonts released
FYI. Just saw on Santhosh's site: Might interest the Indic guys if you've not seen it already! Do forward it to Malayalam list too! New Version of Malayalam fonts released http://thottingal.in/blog/2012/03/10/new-version-of-malayalam-fonts-released/ -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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: [Wmfcc-l] The kind, gentle approach to retaining new editors
. Cavallari noted that he has had a much different experience editing on his native Portuguese language Wikipedia, where some editors have not been as kind to him. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chromodoris_willani_for_nudipixel.jpg> A photo of Chromodoris willani, by Alex Jenner, Wikimedia Commons Another member of Hewitt’s circle of wiki love is Alexander Jenner<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antarctic-adventurer>, an astrophysicist living in Tokyo, Japan. Just like Cavallari, Jenner has never met Hewitt in person, but he is grateful she welcomed him. Given his interest in scuba diving and underwater photography, Hewitt encouraged him to contribute his photos to Commons. “Susan, she was doing other areas of Gastropods and she said ‘Nobody’s doing nudibranchs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudibranch>, so we’re happy to have somebody doing it.’” Jenner noted. “I guess I got a buzz when I was the first person to add a high definition photo of a species that didn’t exist [on Wikipedia]. It was like, ‘I did that photo.’” Jenner said he had a much different experience on another WikiProject, where there is no welcoming committee and there are often heated arguments. If he had joined the other project before Gastropods, he said, “I doubt I would have edited nearly as much. That early phase before one becomes accustomed to the ways of Wikipedia is very important.” “Susan most certainly made a difference in my case,” he added. *(To get involved with WikProject:Gastropods<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Gastropods>, feel free to contact Susan Hewitt on her talk page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Invertzoo> or reach out to any of the members of the project. For more information, read this excellent piece<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-04-26/WikiProject_report> from the Wikipedia Signpost WikiProject series<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archives/WikiProject_report> .)* -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org ___ Wmfcc-l mailing list wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfcc-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
Dear all, In personal capacity, just offering a small clarification. I agree that chapter and IP as organizational entities should have their roles defined and their reports tabulated. This is a very desirable and healthy practice imho. Regarding my role as SIG, GLAM person, member of the Chapter communications and Foundation consultant, I believe it is not so much a case of conflicting roles but a matter of fewer people around. I am already working on weekends as volunteer (in the museum and as SIG) and do not want to be dissociated from the chapter communications team because I sincerely look up to Tinu as a mentor. However, this is just my personal opinion. Thank you Warm regards Noopur On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Hisham wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > > hi, > > I don't think all events will fall so neatly into categories. I do not > want to see a situation where Chapter and Foundation wrestle for any > event. > > > I agree, Pradeep. Having said that, the problem we are currently grappling > with (and I think will continue to do so for the foreseeable future) is one > of too much work and too little hands. There is too much to do and no > dearth of opportunities - and therefore there ought to be no cause for > "wrestling." However, the India Chapter and India Program must (continue > to) work at communicating and collaborating effectively. I also think we > should share these collaborations stories more impactfully to the community > - to bring them to life for the community. > > hisham > > ___ > 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 > > -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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
