[Wikimediaindia-l] Live streaming of Erik Moeller's talk

[Noopur Raval]

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


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad

[Noopur Raval]

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

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: The Sunday meet-up

[Noopur Raval]

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,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] FWD: New Wiki Education newsletter

[Noopur Raval]

*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
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-gu] Fwd: Gujarati ane Computer: 17th August

[Noopur Raval]

*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

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimania]: India - Nepal community meet up

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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 ?
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimania]: India - Nepal community meet up

[Noopur Raval]

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
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team

[Noopur Raval]

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 :)
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Chronicling the Crafts – India’s First GLAM Initiative

[Noopur Raval]

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


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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Tag and assess drive 2012: the largest collaboration of WP:India on English Wikipedia!

[Noopur Raval]

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,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia education programme

[Noopur Raval]

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/

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Mumbai meetup

[Noopur Raval]

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,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Mumbai meetup

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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
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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,
>> --
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>> 09969249984 (Mumbai)
>> 09448810822 (Bangalore)
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai meetup

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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!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>> (User:Karthikndr <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr>)
> >>> *Karthik Nadar.*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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> >> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
> >>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai meetup

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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.*
>>
>>
>
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>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Kerala hosts WikiSangamolsavam

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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,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC: Social Media pilot

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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
> >>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] IRC: Social Media pilot

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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
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [IRC]: Social Media pilot IRC at 8:00 p.m (IST) on 21st June (today)

[Noopur Raval]

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.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Lessons and tips on getting media coverage

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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

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Visit from Bangladeshi Wikipedians

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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

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [India Program]: Monthly reports for May-June and IRC announcement

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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,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [IRC]: India Program: Community Building Pilot (7th June - 9:30 p.m)

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 community members.  In the early days when Shiju started off, he
> was interacting with Bishnu, Dipankar, Gitartha, Jyoti & Prabhakar - who
> helped organise the first meet-ups and outreach sessions.  Thanks to their
> efforts, a list of thank-yous would now be 31 strong!  Thank you and
> congratulations to all of you!
>
> To the Assamese community, I wish you the very best for your 10th
> anniversary<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/>.[6]
> There are exciting plans including your photo contest and your article
> contest and the meet-up and the outreach session.  I know that you are
> doing most of the event largely independently (with 
> Noopur<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28>[7] providing
> media assistance for the 10th anniversary and an India 
> Chapter<http://wikimedia.in/>
> [8] 
> grant<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Workshop_on_10-th_Anniversary_of_Assamese_Wikipedia>[9]
>  supporting
> you.)  This is the true signs of a community that is coming of age.  There
> are tremendous opportunities in outreach to get new editors, initiatives
> like your article & photo contests to improve content and in proposed
> projects like offline to make transformational changes in the community.
>
> With regard to the way forward for India Program, the pilot design 
> page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building>
> [4] on meta <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program>[3] has now
> been updated.  The next steps are going to be to see how we can adapt or
> build on these experiences with other communities, and as we move to other
> communities, do them in a more scaleable manner.
>
> To all community members - across languages across India - if you did want
> any help in any aspect of community building, please feel free to reach out
> to Shiju <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju>[1] at
> sh...@wikimedia.org.  Please also do add comments or ideas or suggestions
> you might have to the Community Building Pilot's talk 
> page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building>
> .[10]
>
> *hisham <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham>[11]
> *
> Notes
> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju
> [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages
> [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program
> [4]
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building
> [5]
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.html
> [6]
> http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/
> [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28
> [8] http://wikimedia.in/
> [9]
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Workshop_on_10-th_Anniversary_of_Assamese_Wikipedia
> [10]
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building
> [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [IRC]: India Program: Community Building Pilot (7th June - 9:30 p.m)

[Noopur Raval]

iative 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 community members.  In the early days when Shiju started off, he
>> was interacting with Bishnu, Dipankar, Gitartha, Jyoti & Prabhakar - who
>> helped organise the first meet-ups and outreach sessions.  Thanks to their
>> efforts, a list of thank-yous would now be 31 strong!  Thank you and
>> congratulations to all of you!
>>
>> To the Assamese community, I wish you the very best for your 10th
>> anniversary<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/>.[6]
>> There are exciting plans including your photo contest and your article
>> contest and the meet-up and the outreach session.  I know that you are
>> doing most of the event largely independently (with 
>> Noopur<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28>[7] providing
>> media assistance for the 10th anniversary and an India 
>> Chapter<http://wikimedia.in/>
>> [8] 
>> grant<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Workshop_on_10-th_Anniversary_of_Assamese_Wikipedia>[9]
>>  supporting
>> you.)  This is the true signs of a community that is coming of age.  There
>> are tremendous opportunities in outreach to get new editors, initiatives
>> like your article & photo contests to improve content and in proposed
>> projects like offline to make transformational changes in the community.
>>
>> With regard to the way forward for India Program, the pilot design 
>> page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building>
>> [4] on meta <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program>[3] has now
>> been updated.  The next steps are going to be to see how we can adapt or
>> build on these experiences with other communities, and as we move to other
>> communities, do them in a more scaleable manner.
>>
>> To all community members - across languages across India - if you did
>> want any help in any aspect of community building, please feel free to
>> reach out to Shiju <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju>[1] at
>> sh...@wikimedia.org.  Please also do add comments or ideas or
>> suggestions you might have to the Community Building Pilot's talk 
>> page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building>
>> .[10]
>>
>> *hisham <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham>[11]
>> *
>> Notes
>> [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju
>> [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages
>> [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program
>> [4]
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building
>> [5]
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.html
>> [6]
>> http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/
>> [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28
>> [8] http://wikimedia.in/
>> [9]
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Workshop_on_10-th_Anniversary_of_Assamese_Wikipedia
>> [10]
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building
>> [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June

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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.  :)
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Social Media Pilot

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entors can
>>> handle the group and actually make meaningful relationships with new
>>> editors. I invite you as well to join in as a mentor and would love to have
>>> a Skype call with you.
>>>
>>

> Just to give you a sense of what all is happening on Communications
>>> simultaneously - I have worked on 
>>> Wikipatrika<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News>,
>>> supporting the Malayalam conference, the Assamese 10th anniversary, the
>>> Kannada 10th anniversary, the Nepali 9th anniversary as well as stories
>>> that we have published for the Tamil media 
>>> contest<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/20/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/>,
>>> the Gujarati 
>>> Wikisource<http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-years-6-users-1000-articles-counting-the-source-of-gujarati-wikisource/>(and
>>>  Indic
>>> Wikisources<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:+medianama+%28Medianama:+Digital+Media+In+India%29>in
>>>  general), a
>>> profile of 
>>> Netha<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/>,
>>> press for Wiki Pune club AND worked on social 
>>> media<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media>.
>>> Of course, needless to mention that I also work on the monthly reports,
>>> press updates, twitter/FB updates, build press contacts for English and
>>> Indic languages in various states and solicit press partnerships. I am not
>>> sure if you know but, Harsh has been trying to get a series of outreach
>>> sessions going in Ahmedabad and I've been trying to get him school/college
>>> participation and even proposed starting a Wiki club in Ahmedabad.  Similar
>>> for Hindi, a few Hindi editors have written to me offlist to see how they
>>> could utilize social media platforms more effectively too.
>>>
>>
>> To Hisham and the rest of the India Program team:  I am still waiting for
>> answers to these questions.  They were asked with seriousness, and they
>> deserve your serious consideration.
>>
>
Just a little something that I happened to read yesterday:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-31/the-future-of-facebook-is-in-india

Best,

Noopur

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog post]: Numerals in Indic languages

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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/

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Medianma - Wikipedians Digitizing Out-Of-Copyright Texts In Eight Indian Languages

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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

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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

[Noopur Raval]

 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/

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipatrika]: Announcing the third issue of Wikipatrika!

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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
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipatrika]: Announcing the third issue of Wikipatrika!

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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,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [India Program]: Monthly report and updates

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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
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipatrika]: A quick update

[Noopur Raval]

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

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Fortnightly IRC: Thursday April 19 at 9pm IST: Indic Outreach & Communications

[Noopur Raval]

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

[Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Fortnightly IRC: Thursday April 19 at 9pm IST: Indic Outreach & Communications

[Noopur Raval]

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

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community

[Noopur Raval]

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

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Youths come forward to fill up Odia Wikipedia

[Noopur Raval]

<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
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: The source of Gujarati Wikisource

[Noopur Raval]

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/

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Post on Aniruddha Kumar - Hindi Wikipedian

[Noopur Raval]

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/

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Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

[Noopur Raval]

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

[Noopur Raval]

Dear all,

I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika.  For the folks who don't know, this
is the community newsletter which has come out twice (in September
2010
 &  June 2011 )  It's a
really wonderful way documenting and celebrating the amazing work done by
so many community members across so many communities in the various
projects.  It helps share ideas with and helps pick up ideas from other
communities.

I think Wikipatrika is something that could be more frequent - given the
range of activities across communities - and I'd like to support it.  In
this regard, I approached all the editors who were involved in the previous
2 issues to ask their interest in bringing out the next one in end April
covering Jan - Mar 2012, and to see if we can make it more regular
(potentially every quarter.)  5 community members from different languages
have already offered to help.  Another community member will setup a
template that all languages can use (on wiki.wikimedia.in)
I have also started reaching out to editors who might not have been
involved before, and hence this mail.

The template for Wikipatrika will be ready only by April 2nd week.  In the
meantime, can I ask whoever is interested to create a page on
their respective languages wikipedias and start sharing stories and updates
on this page.  I'd encourage everyone to write these in whatever language
they are comfortable in to begin with.   (Once the template is set up on
wiki.wikimedia.in, these individual pages could then be posted there.)  To
start off, you could start with the following sections (which I'm
illustrating using the
Bengali
page
from a previous Wikipatrika), and just start adding content.

   1. General overview
   2. Bengali Wikipedia
   3. Bengali Wikisource
   4. Bengali Wiktionary
   5. Bengali Wikibooks
   6. News reports
   7. Any other section(s) you want to add

 Please do add as much as you want on

   - Updates on the various projects
   - Landmarks, birthdays, celebrations, events, conferences,  etc between
   Jan-Mar 2012
   - Reports on outreach sessions conducted
   - Links to meetups and where to find the next ones
   - Please feel free to add sections that you think would be nice.  I
   could suggest "Featured Wikimedians" and "Featured Newbies" as examples.

Here

[Wikimediaindia-l] Blog post on Netha Hussain/ Introduction to Storytelling

[Noopur Raval]

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
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