Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mediawiki version upgrade
Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Arun, In fact I am sorry. Sorry for taking the real bunter so seriously and personally, sorry for having a go at you. Guys here kept on convincing me that it was a joke, but I was blinded so much in my false anger. I really apologise for that. I have inly seen all serious discussions and allegations recently and from the very first day of joining this list, that I could simply not think that someone mught even joke here. No problem, I totally understood why I could have been misunderstood. I myself am scared to post on the India lists because it feels like I'm about to enter combat with unknown assailants who strike wherever you are not looking. These lists are meant to be for discussions on topics of our interest and building online relationships with fellow contributors. If we cant make it fun then what's the point of contributing? Regarding the bug, I feel at sometime a decision should be taken to stop active support for old browsers. We are still spending valuable development time and effort on fixing issues such as these when we could be concentrating on building stuff for the future. I can understand if there are people using ie7 out of their own will, but from previous cases, it does seem like a good chunk of users are in offices because of outdated IT policy. The IT policy has to eventually see reason and change, so why cant it be now? It will just make the world a better place :) IE7 and even IE6 still have quite a lot of users I think (IE6 being the default browser shipped with WinXP, which is used widely). AFAIK, Microsoft stops support for WinXP in 2014, and so we could go on for 2 more years I guess. Arun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609
No its not so serious as you make it out to be. I don't mean to discriminate on basis of age, but User:Abhijay claims to be a 16 year old user from South East Asia; and I don't know, we can probably expect WP:DIVA to be more prevalent among teenagers? (again, not discriminating; I'm one myself!). So lets cool down a bit and not get into a frenzy. Besides, he was facing an interaction ban with another editor and all that, and for all we know, was probably under a lot of stress. Situations like these aren't uncommon on enwiki, and there have been many times when users have returned back, stronger and better. Give them have some time to cool off. I don't know why Pradeep decided to retire, and I do not intend to pry. I agree with Srikeit's opinions and observations; I hope Pradeep's retirement will only be temporary. Regards, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:16, Yash Thakkar yasht...@gmail.com wrote: Now, this is a major issue On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:11 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: FYI ... One more user[1] has retired on English Wikipedia[2]. Whats going on !! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abhijay [2] http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Abhijay On 28 March 2012 02:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Srikeit, he might've had an account for five years but only recently did he start contributing. While the case of Pradeep is indeed different, we must take steps to prevent other potential editors from leaving. -- 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 -- Kind Regards ansuman smileyansu http://twitter.com/smileyansu *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ http://or.wikipedia.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 mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IBAN . I appreciate you trying to learn, but do try and keep the mailing list threads on topic. I'll be happy to assist you on my talkpage, so you can post there! Thanks, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:42, Yash Thakkar yasht...@gmail.com wrote: What is and editor-interrection ban? On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote: No its not so serious as you make it out to be. I don't mean to discriminate on basis of age, but User:Abhijay claims to be a 16 year old user from South East Asia; and I don't know, we can probably expect WP:DIVA to be more prevalent among teenagers? (again, not discriminating; I'm one myself!). So lets cool down a bit and not get into a frenzy. Besides, he was facing an interaction ban with another editor and all that, and for all we know, was probably under a lot of stress. Situations like these aren't uncommon on enwiki, and there have been many times when users have returned back, stronger and better. Give them have some time to cool off. I don't know why Pradeep decided to retire, and I do not intend to pry. I agree with Srikeit's opinions and observations; I hope Pradeep's retirement will only be temporary. Regards, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:16, Yash Thakkar yasht...@gmail.com wrote: Now, this is a major issue On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:11 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: FYI ... One more user[1] has retired on English Wikipedia[2]. Whats going on !! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abhijay [2] http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Abhijay On 28 March 2012 02:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Srikeit, he might've had an account for five years but only recently did he start contributing. While the case of Pradeep is indeed different, we must take steps to prevent other potential editors from leaving. -- 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 -- Kind Regards ansuman smileyansu http://twitter.com/smileyansu *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ http://or.wikipedia.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 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 ___ 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] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
One can also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F for clarification. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010. So yeah, that's a big market for spammers. anirudh On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote: I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia. Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware. Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I personally never will support this. I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has reported this issue. This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now! User:Rameshng On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Could be, but it wouldn't hurt to do a scan of your system and find out if anything is wrong with it. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not the techie here, but I don't think its a malware on a system per se. Reason being being, two different people have experienced it, same ad also from different IP's, different locations though. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely Adware/Malware/Spyware/etc. Notice in the Screenshot, it says Ads Not By This Site. It should've been a clue. Do scan your system with a good antivirus [Free or paid doesn't matter]. If your system is infected by anything, your data might be at risk. --Cheers, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I just saw that screenshot and remembered, even my friend said, it was by the same site, inkfruit. Some common issue?? On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune told me that Wikipedia had started ads, to which I dared him to show me and in fact made a bet. He failed to show me when I asked him to, so I took it as a singular even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other people have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not alone. I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back to you guys on this. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 in Chittagong
Hmm, I think there should be a Bangladesh mailing list? Perhaps we can know from that. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:59, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, is there any means to know about the events happening in our neighbours house?.. like th one Unconference thing in B'desh? if there is any, can we have some one representing our India in those events.. Jus a suggestion and curiosity. correct if i am wrong. Best, Ade. On 12 March 2012 11:49, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding a report published by Wikimedia Bangladesh regarding an unconference organized in Chittagong. According to Tanvir, at least 300 participants attended. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 in Chittagong To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, I am so pleased to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh, with the help of Independent University, Bangladesh, Chittagong, and Bangladesh Open Source Network, organized the first Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 [1] in Chittagong [2] to promote Bangla Wikipedia [3] in Bangladesh. This outreach event was held in 2 and 3 of March and was attended by around 300 participants. It was first big-level program of Wikimedia Bangladesh and it was outside of the Dhaka (the capital) to focus on country-wide outreach. We called it an unconference to give it a less formal look and to make the appearance more welcoming. This two days event was inaugurated by the Chittagong City Mayor and and in the last it was attended by the Since and Technology minister of Bangladesh Government. It was also attended by some other popular public figures, writers, and university professors, and media personalties. During the unconference we had events like workshops, photo exhibition, cultural program, seminars, article writing contest, etc. We had several teams from the schools, colleges, and universities in Chittagong as team participants. The unconference was hosted by Chittagong campus of Independent University, Bangladesh. You can see the some of the images of the events in the Commons category [4]. Because of the presence of the popular public figures and government officials, the event got a significant amount of media coverage in national print and electronic media. We also even had billboards in the city's main crossings to let people know about Bangla Wikipedia which was the main purpose of this event and current strategic priority of Wikimedia Bangladesh. Wikimedia Bangladesh wants to thank everyone who supported us. We want to thank our sponsors and donors who helped us to arrange this big event. We want thank Wikimedia Foundation director Sue Gardner for her nice video speech that we screened in the inaugural ceremony. And of course to our participants, who eventually made this effort a success. And I apologize to let you guys know about this event in late. We are still working on putting everything on wiki. Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia Secretary, Wikimedia Bangladesh [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong [3] http://bn.wikipedia.org [4] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-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 ___ 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: [Foundation-l] Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 in Chittagong
Most definitely, yes; it'd be a benefit for both communities. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 23:09, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.comwrote: gud ..now we can use that list... moreover, we Indians can also let our neighbors know about the major events we conduct so this will enhance cross nation participating... it will also help us recognize cross cultural contribution and participation.. India is cross cultured itself... addition of neighboring cultures will make our sub-continent look brighter! :) Please share your thoughts on this... Thanks in advance, Ade. On 14 March 2012 20:20, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: But there is one :) wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd And to send mail use: wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org _ * * *[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 14 March 2012 11:45, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, I think there should be a Bangladesh mailing list? Perhaps we can know from that. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:59, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, is there any means to know about the events happening in our neighbours house?.. like th one Unconference thing in B'desh? if there is any, can we have some one representing our India in those events.. Jus a suggestion and curiosity. correct if i am wrong. Best, Ade. On 12 March 2012 11:49, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding a report published by Wikimedia Bangladesh regarding an unconference organized in Chittagong. According to Tanvir, at least 300 participants attended. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 in Chittagong To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, I am so pleased to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh, with the help of Independent University, Bangladesh, Chittagong, and Bangladesh Open Source Network, organized the first Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 [1] in Chittagong [2] to promote Bangla Wikipedia [3] in Bangladesh. This outreach event was held in 2 and 3 of March and was attended by around 300 participants. It was first big-level program of Wikimedia Bangladesh and it was outside of the Dhaka (the capital) to focus on country-wide outreach. We called it an unconference to give it a less formal look and to make the appearance more welcoming. This two days event was inaugurated by the Chittagong City Mayor and and in the last it was attended by the Since and Technology minister of Bangladesh Government. It was also attended by some other popular public figures, writers, and university professors, and media personalties. During the unconference we had events like workshops, photo exhibition, cultural program, seminars, article writing contest, etc. We had several teams from the schools, colleges, and universities in Chittagong as team participants. The unconference was hosted by Chittagong campus of Independent University, Bangladesh. You can see the some of the images of the events in the Commons category [4]. Because of the presence of the popular public figures and government officials, the event got a significant amount of media coverage in national print and electronic media. We also even had billboards in the city's main crossings to let people know about Bangla Wikipedia which was the main purpose of this event and current strategic priority of Wikimedia Bangladesh. Wikimedia Bangladesh wants to thank everyone who supported us. We want to thank our sponsors and donors who helped us to arrange this big event. We want thank Wikimedia Foundation director Sue Gardner for her nice video speech that we screened in the inaugural ceremony. And of course to our participants, who eventually made this effort a success. And I apologize to let you guys know about this event in late. We are still working on putting everything on wiki. Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia Secretary, Wikimedia Bangladesh [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong [3] http://bn.wikipedia.org [4] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal
Just add your name and a short profile here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian . Sysops there can then later update it on the main page. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 22:21, Konarak Ratnakar konarak...@live.com wrote: I don't have access for editing that template. Konarak -- From: konarak...@live.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 21:55:50 +0530 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal Hey, I can, but I don't know if Ssriram_mt is S-Sriram. -- From: navee...@wikimedia.in Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:59:12 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal Sure Ashwin happy to feature all Wikimedians :-) Hoi, Bpositive, S-Sriram Kondicherry can you update page ? http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian How you contribute to Wikimedia projects- editing,photography,outreach,map making ? Please add a photo in the page. Thanks, naveenpf On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Naveen, the young folk who volunteered to take charge of projects such as Bpositive, S-Sriram Kondicherry may please be considered for this column. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi Abhiram, Will take care this. Please feel free to chip in and help to identify the featured wikipedians across India. -- naveenpf On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Abhiram C abhivasish...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Members, I would like to inform the Wikimedia India Chapter and its volunteers/workers that the Featured Wikimedian for the last 2 months have not been updated as such. I hope those who maintain the portal will look into the matter soon enough not to be obsolete. -- Thanks Regards, Abhiram C (User: sbblr0803) ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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] [Press] : Times of India : Sanskrit makes a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community
We got coverage from the enwiki Signpost as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-05/In_the_news Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 03:26, Tinu Cherian tinucher...@wikimedia.in wrote: Any way to reach out to them ? Are they on sa-wiki list ? *Times of India : Sanskrit makes a comeback, thanks to Wikipedia community* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/Sanskrit-makes-a-comeback-thanks-to-Wikipedia-community/articleshow/12012312.cms *Acclaimed author and linguist Umberto Eco once compared languages to biological creatures. A language, he said, follows an organic lifespan - it is born, it grows old, and it passes away. If the analogy holds, then Sanskrit, one of the most ancient of tongues which originated in India, seems to be living the last of its grizzled and decrepit years. There has been talk of declaring it a dead language, and some believe that it is only a matter of time before this language too goes the way of ancient Greek and Latin. But this is likely only if the labour and constant endeavours of the Sanskrit community - a body comprising scholars and students of the language present in Gurgaon and other parts of the country - fail to bear fruit. Dr Shreyansh Dwivedi is part of the department of Sanskrit in SCERT, Gurgaon. According to him, contrary to popular notions, Sanskrit is most alive today than it has ever been. The trouble is that most people do not realize how much is happening in this field, he said. Attempts have been made to help the language evolve to modern standards. Haryana Sanskrit Academy is about to a launch a Sanskrit grammar software for the students of the language. A full-fledged Sanskrit Wikipedia is online, where scholars like Dwivedi and his colleagues are regular contributors. And in Gurgaon, preparations for a new seminar and workshop for the young are under way. There is no other language, which is being supported so thoroughly and comprehensively, not just in Gurgaon, but in other parts of the country too, said Dwivedi. He added that even those who are teaching Sanskrit in schools and colleges have little idea about how vibrant this sphere is with activity. According to officials of the Haryana Sanskrit Academy, young students are more than willing to go for language degrees in Sanskrit. Earlier this month the Delhi Sanskrit Academy held a one-day workshop, where hundreds of young people turned up. It's only a matter of making the language accessible, and Sanskrit will find many takers within no time, said an official of the academy. * Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news 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. -- 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 ___ 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] Live Search
Just noticed that the Signpost also covered this in a line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-02-27/Technology_report . Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 15:48, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tinu. My congratulations to everyone who worked on it Shrey, Santhosh, Junaid and especially, Naveen. I'm sure Erik is aware and following the development. But I think this tool can have a positive impact generally, as a new search project. it can do wonders for projects like Wiktionary, consolidating different language versions. I have proposed a new project on Meta based on it - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Live.wikipedia - Feel free to make changes and edit it as you see fit. If anyone is in contact with Shrey, please link him to that page, in case he wants to make any changes. I didn't want to leave my name there first as the one who proposed it, since I believe that title should go to Shrey or the people who worked on it. This is good work done by everyone involved. Regards Theo On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:17 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Theo. More details on the announcement here http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-February/007059.html -TC Sent from Mobile On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I just saw this Live search project http://live.wikimedia.in/ supported by Wikimedia India. I was travelling recently, so I must have missed the announcements for it. Can someone fill me in about how this came to be? This looks like an excellent project, the chapter did an outstanding job supporting it. I love the twitter-ish font-end. It seems like a great tool that can even be a new general Wikimedia project. A live version. I would like to learn more about it. Regards Theo ___ 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 ___ 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] Images in wikipedia
I don't exactly get what you mean; something like Popups? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popups) Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 14:24, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: When using wikipedia and clicking on an image it opens up on a new page. Wouldn't it be nice if it just scaled-up on the same page using JS. Is there an extension there for this? and if yes why not implemented on wikipedia? -- With Regards Nischay Nahata B.tech 3rd year Department of Information Technology NITK,Surathkal irc-nick nischayn22 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Images in wikipedia
Popups primarily display text, and any image in the target page is shown even smaller in size. I'm guessing that's not what Nischay's looking for; but there may be a gadget for that somewhere that someone wrote! If you think such a gadget will be useful, one can always write it if it doesn't exist. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 20:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:02 PM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.comwrote: Like in sites like facebook and also in google image-search..on hover the images pop-out in larger size and then on clicking they open in a new page.. You can activate popups from your preferences/settings after logging in to activate the hover and preview feature. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Creating video of Indian Editors We Edit Wikipedia
Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 20:38, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Let me clear this confusion. Dear Srikanth R, *please* attempt to read the ENTIRE mail. I suggested recording in a popular format because converting and editing ogv is a PAIN. And, it reduces video quality by two times. +1 to that. OGV, for all its openness, is a big pain to work on, especially for converting. Another thing, if we are to upload these videos to Commons, *obviously* we will have to convert them to open formats. So, no one is denying that. It is rather obvious and understood. So now that we have cleared confusions, can the SIGs and guys organizing meetups please raise hands? Will you guys be able to do such recording? *raises hand* I am willing to create such a video; I appreciate Subha's mail about what exactly to say, but it shouldn't be a boring, mechanical interview-style answering of questions. If it is to motivate others, it should be catchy (read ad-like). On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi su...@wikimedia.org wrote: Well, that's the whole point. The final file to be hosted for public would be ogg and the backend work will involve raw file editing collected in different formats. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Konarak Ratnakar konarak...@live.com wrote: Subhashis exactly, you might know this, but Xiph (developers of .ogg /.ogv) doesn't even endorse .ogv. And .ogg can be used with Matroska. Though I'll convert the videos in .ogv. Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 18:53:51 +0530 From: su...@wikimedia.org To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Creating video of Indian Editors We Edit Wikipedia That sounds good Konarak, and apart from the loss of quality most handy cam users might not be aware of converting them to ogg, but once you convert raw footages to ogg there will be difficulty to edit, because normally the final avi/mpeg is converted to a open source format and uploaded in Commons. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Konarak Ratnakar konarak...@live.com wrote: Hey Srikanth, that's fine by me, twas just a suggestion, because in .ogv there is loss of quality due to compression. Subhashish, I will, in the Meetup, it's on 19th of feb. Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:10:39 +0530 From: su...@wikimedia.org To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Creating video of Indian Editors We Edit Wikipedia Yes, they are also being invited to participated, it's about Indian Editors and Indian faces. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: And what about participation of the Indian English Community? On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi su...@wikimedia.org wrote: Here are the answers I have to all of you. @Noopur: nice points, I am including them all and here is draft for the community which I will be posting in the respective Wikipedia Village pumps. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Subha_WMF/sandbox1) @Ashwin, the videos you, Nitika and Swaroop are working will be hardcore outreach videos to teach how to edit Wikipedia. @Konarak, thanks a lot buddy, let us get the footages and we would definitely seek your support for the post production. Moover, we would be more than happy if you lead the event to get the videos done in your place from the community members. @Srikanth, the final video will be in Commons and obviously with .ogv format. But the raw footage will be in .mov/avi/mpeg, they are the formats used before editing. After editing we will convert the final video into .ogv. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Subha, What about the Indian English Community? Noopur, Thanks for the ideas, but one small suggestion. Format- Keep it OGV. We can't be promoting an open project with a closed format video no? Konark, Good to see young brains like you volunteering on this. Ashwin, Can I have a link please? On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Nitika MikeLynch some others have just begin working in this field and a prototype video on how to create an account has been made. Imho these efforts should be combined. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Konarak Ratnakar konarak...@live.com wrote: Hey, +1 to this, I can help(composing, editing). Konarak. Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:10:06 +0530 From: noopur.ra...@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please sign up for WikiProject India if you are an English language Wikipedian (yes, English is an Indic language)
Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 20:29, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: I think we need to contact dormant editors and ask them why they stopped editing. Here is something to think about - is there such a thing as a lifecycle of a Wikipedia where a person goes through stages finally burns out? Just found some WikiHumor related to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Seven_Ages_of_Wikipedians Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: And User:GaneshK, who started it will be God. On a serious note, Ashwin, I would like it if you and I could do a look-up [We can call it Research and award ourselves PhDs later] on what happened to WPIN between mid 2009 and mid 2011. Why the community died out. -- On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, I wanna be Velociraptor! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: In that case, users like Srikeit and Anirudh who have been a part of WP:India since it was formed in 2006 should be called dinosaurs ;) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:36:09 +0530 From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please sign up for WikiProject India if you are an English language Wikipedian (yes, English is an Indic language) I am thinking the title of gaon budhas or village elders be given to such people :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Just a pointer. Tinu, Logic, Me, Ravichander, etc have been part of WP:India from 2009. : ) On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I suddenly realised that amongst the guys who signed up for WikiProject India in Jan-Feb are such hardcore Wikipedians as RSrikanth05, Joyson Prabhu, Karthikndr Sitush. Which brings me to the corollary - there are oodles of established Indian editors who are not yet members of WikiProject India! Gosh, guys please sign up! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Members 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 Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 ___ 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 Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] New Volunteer joins WikiProject India team
Ah, well, let's AGF a bit ;) . Nice to have you here Pratik! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 16:17, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Ashwin, I understand what you mean. Perfectly, but I just want to point it out that we MUST avoid using that word infront of new users. Time and again, at meetups, we've had this question.* I own an article. He edited it. What should I do?* On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Oh, I am under no apprehensions about ownership of WikiProject India. I am only a volunteer who tends to it as SIG chair on being requested by some colleagues. So it is my something in my care - a trust belonging to the people in which I look after something which belongs to all. Ownership here can only mean the feeling that Wikipedia belongs to all of us and because of that it is inherently good and desirable of us to work for it - not that I own this or that article. When you own something you care about it and work for it. I am sure that is what is meant by Nitika. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Nitika, The term ownership doesn't exist here. Yes, while I welcome BPositive and hope that he helps us increase the Quality of Indian articles, I really don't like this Ownership thing people talk about. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: That's great! So good to see more people sharing responsibilities and taking ownership of projects in Wikipedia. I wish you all the best Pratik! I'm sure you'll learn a lot while leading this project. And a great thank you to Ashwin who has been indefatigable watching out on several WikiProjects, co-ordintaing offline Wikipedia project, handholding newbies, guiding all the Campus Ambassadors, leading GA master class, encouraging everyone to join WikiProject India and the list goes on and on and on. Thank you so very much Ashwin! :-) Nitika On 16-Feb-2012, at 9:45 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: Dear friends, I would like to welcome Pratik Lahoti or User:BPositive to the fold of people in charge of doing things in Wikipedia. BPositive is a young member (in comparison to me :)) of Pune community and Wikipedia Pune Club. He was an active Campus Ambassador in the first version of India Education Program. Energetic and enthusiastic BPositive is taking charge of the India Collaboration of the Month (INCOTM) process and is the first person to volunteer to help me keep WikiProject India active by taking on a specific responsibility. All the best BPositive and hope you have a great time doing things new to you till now! I request the wider India community to welcome and support BPositive as he guides us on our monthly INCOTMs. AshLin ___ Wikimedia-in-en mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en ___ 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 Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Wikimania 2012 - scholarship applications, Deadline : 16 Feb 2012
30% from Asia-Pacific I believe; that should be around 7-9 scholarships for India? Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 16:19, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: I've been told that a lot of students especially the CAs from IEP have applied. I've also heard that there is 30% reservation of scholarships for South East Asia. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: I have already applied. What about others? -Sudhanwa On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) tinucher...@wikimedia.in wrote: A gentle reminder of the Deadline of TODAY for the application of Wikimania Scholarships ! Regards Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India On 1/25/2012 5:19 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: Hi all, Wikimania is the annual international conference of Wikimedians , jointly hosted by the local team ( usually local chapter) and the Wikimedia Foundation. The previous conferences were held in Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Boston, USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), Gdańsk, Poland (2010), and Haifa, Israel (2011). This year, it is to be held in Washington DC, United States of America, on July 12-14 , 2012. http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page I have attended the Wikimanias in Gdansk and Haifa, along with several other Wikipedians from India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2011 I highly recommend everyone to apply and attend Wikimania ! Like every year, The Wikimedia Foundation is offering a limited number of scholarships to offset the cost of select individuals' attendance at Wikimania. Both full and partial scholarships are available for Wikimania 2012: Full scholarships will award round trip travel, dorms accommodations and registration. Partial scholarships will subsidize up to 300€ of travel expenses. Scholarship recipients have to bear themselves the additional costs of taxis, visa travel agent charges etc. More Information : http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships Apply here : https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/ Deadline : 16 Feb 2012 Around 30 % of the scholarship are allocated to Asia Pacific, so there are more chances of scholarship applications from India to be selected. :) Please note that the selection is mostly based on the merit of the applications. One of the common mistakes that Wikimedians in India make is that we aren't enough vocal of what we do. So please do write in detail about your Wikimedia activities. Please feel free to forward this to various language and city mailing lists and encourage other Wikimedians to apply. All the best wishes! Regards Tinu Cherian -- 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette
Congrats to Philippe, I'm sure he'll be great in his new office, just as he was as Head of Reader Relations. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 16:59, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: There is an on-going discussion on the Foundation mailing list. Feel free to review the clarifications that PB has posted. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Just one question. What does this new Department mean to the Ordinary Wikipedian? -- On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: This is for your information. Sincerely, Anirudh Bhati -- Forwarded message -- From: Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:19 AM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department Promotion of Philippe Beaudette To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org Today, we are excited to announce the start of our building of a new department called the “Legal and Community Advocacy Department.” This new alignment recognizes that we can combine the best of legal and community advocacy to foster new ways to advance the interests of the community consistent with the goals and strategies of the Foundation. For details, please go to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/LCA_Announcement. As part of this reorganization, I’m pleased to announce that Philippe Beaudette has been promoted to Director of Community Advocacy. We will start engaging our community shortly and enter into a consultation period with it to brainstorm how to build the department. We anticipate that it will take us about 6-12 months to get the right team and drive the new department at full speed. The community is invited to join us on Friday for office hours to discuss the new Legal and Community Advocacy Department. Details for the IRC chat can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours . Geoff Brigham General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-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 -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Account Creation Requests during Wiki Events
Always better to have an accountcreator or an admin friend online so that all the requests are processed smoothly. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 02:34, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Was there a wiki session in mumbai recently ?? Five (or more) ACC requests from an IP address have made. And they (one/two of them) had dropped all the request assuming It was from a single user. So I request all of you to leave a note at any ACC Tool Admin http://toolserver.org/~acc/statistics.php?page=Users#Admin (List) or come to IRC http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikipedia-en-accounts during the requests. Usually they don't drop if the requests are from different E-mail IDs and it passes other checks. But to avoid confusion it's better to be cautious. 115.119.224.66: 2012-02-04 06:59:52 Rashaditi 2012-02-04 07:02:13 Khageshwari 2012-02-04 07:05:11 Poojadhatrak 2012-02-04 07:14:45 Priyanaka.Babar 2012-02-04 07:24:14 Abhilashapoonam (All UTC) I don't know whether these requests were made during a wiki event or not. Just thought It could be an undeclared wiki session by any wikipedian. Please forward this to other lists :) * *Thanks n Regards Ansuman * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ansumang * * ___ * * Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * -- 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 ___ 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: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info
Yes, I wouldn't term it as vandalism, but more of a large scale POV pushing. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 13:44, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Vandalism? Not necessarily. Point of View push? Probably yes... Neutral Maps is a tricky issue. :) The speed at which these changes are done through interwiki links, a bot was likely been used ! Interestingly it avoided English Wikipedia. -TC On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Same case was observed and discussed (in VP) in ta wiki too. All the IPs changes are being reverted now. We cant decide whether this is the case of someone of replacing their preferred files from commons or deliberately stirring up controversy On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Mrutyunjaya Kar mkr...@gmail.comwrote: Same case at Odia wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org/ On 2/2/12, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: This has been observed and reverted in Kannada wikipedia. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tejas jain teju2frie...@gmail.com Date: 2012/2/2 Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org Some one has done global vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 http://toolserver.org/%7Eluxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info. User's edit list: http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 Arunachal pradesh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh and Jammu_and_Kashmir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir are hatched as disputed. Was there any discussion before these changes? All the edits on Kannada wiki http://kn.wikipedia.org/ have been reverted because of following reasons, 1. No discussion prior to the changes 2. No references were made 3. Changes done anonymously 4. No change log message 5. No such changes are done on English wiki If it is sure case of vandalism, changes have to be reverted globally. Thanks, Tejas jain http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Teju2friends ___ Wikikn-l mailing list wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l -- Harish 9740069624 ___ 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 ___ 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] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
The Logo is certainly a copyvio, but the text and content gets off easier. Its a simple matter of asking them to license text under CC-BY-SA. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 19:31, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote: I think WMF people could take an action against it, no need to ponder over this stupidity! ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
Yes, Logo is copyrighted by WMF, but text is not. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 19:47, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote: No Swaroop, the logo is a modification version of original Wikipedia Odia logo and can't be in a CC-BY-SA, the admin has to remove it by all chances as it is a WMF's copyrighted logo and can't be used anywhere except foundation's work. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violation by aahwaan.com
As I understand it, the text is not licensed to WMF, but we've definitely got a case with the logo. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 20:07, Srikant Kedia wikiodis...@gmail.com wrote: there is not only the matter of logo.. but also the text.. as it means Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in the logo. On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, Logo is copyrighted by WMF, but text is not. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 19:47, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: No Swaroop, the logo is a modification version of original Wikipedia Odia logo and can't be in a CC-BY-SA, the admin has to remove it by all chances as it is a WMF's copyrighted logo and can't be used anywhere except foundation's work. ___ 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 Regards, Srikant Kedia Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia Community http://or.wikipedia.org Mail ID - odiaw...@gmail.com Facebook- facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki ___ 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] Wiki academy/event at Pragyaan 12 - NIT Trichy
I just got this mail from Rsrikanth05, who is handling an event at NIT Trichy. He has some important things to note about the event, awaiting some replies and help! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) -- Forwarded message -- From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 21:17 Subject: Pragyaan 12 - NIT Trichy To: Swaroop Rao swaroop...@wikimedia.in Forward this to the list and the Chapter, we need a plan ASAP. I spoke to Saagar today. Here are the main issues: Plan: We need a plan of action, and we need it fast. I was asked if this was a contest or a workshop, to which I stated that it was a Workshop. Here are the key points we discussed: 1 Date/Day/Schedule: The event is spread over four days, and is jam packed. We need to schedule it properly, and get a follow up mechanism in place. 2 ISO certification: Pragyaan is the fourth Technical fest in India to get ISO certification. Because of this, the organisers, have to sign an MoU with the organiser/promoter of each individual event. I believe the chapter needs to do something about this. The main purpose of this is to show that the event is taking place and to promote it. 3 Swags: I was suggested that we have a small trivia session thru the session and give out same Laptop stickers/tees/etc. 4 Accommodation: This is really tight. We need to inform the number of participants beforehand to make sure that we can get accommodation. I know Bala won't be able to make it. What about other Community members - Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem, Bangalore, Kerala? Do remember, this is NIT Trichy. A BIG event. I believe Tinu and Logic had done something at NITT earlier. Hoping that they would do it this time as well. Hoping for a response soon. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. HA! I scored 72.9% in my first semester, after scoring 38% in my 12th. Ab bolo, kaun kiska baap. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki academy/event at Pragyaan 12 - NIT Trichy
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 16:00, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'll be more than happy to formulate a plan/proposal for this. Pragyaan 12: http://www.pragyan.org/12/home/ is running through 23rd-26th Feb that means we have enough time to organise this well. Going through the website I feel that they'll have different events running simultaneously on all 4 days and don't not have provisions for stalls. But please correct me if Im wrong. They did have stalls last time I think, but don't know about this time, gotta check with Srikanth. Here is what I propose: 1. Organise at least 8 Wiki sessions during these 4 days. We can keep the morning sessions in English and every evening we can conduct in Tamil. Doing 2 sessions every day will mean that the participants can pick and choose the date and time according to their own convenience. This might lead to more people attending the session. IMO, we don't need to do it for all the 4 days. 2 days with high participation might be better than 4 days with moderate participation. Again, this is my opinion. 2. We should organise Editathons everyday where participants who have already attended wiki sessions during the day can join in. It's important for newbies to experience and practice editing before they fall in love with Wikipedia and Editathons can provide them such a platform. :) That's great! We can throw one morning for a Commons event probably? Just a thought. 3. I personally really like the idea of Trivia sessions. It keeps the participants enthusiastic and interested. 4. How about using this tech fest as a platform to get interested people kick off a Wikipedia Club? 5. How about inviting the participants to join in the Tamil Wiki Media Contest? In fact the Tamil Wikimedia contest will be ending on the 28th if I'm not wrong. Its a great platform to publicize it. Participating in an event as big as this one will definitely need more volunteers. Could I please request more people from Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Kerala to raise hands if they'd like to volunteer on ground for this event. More ideas/suggestions are welcome. Thanks Nitika On 19-Jan-2012, at 2:59 PM, Swaroop Rao wrote: I just got this mail from Rsrikanth05, who is handling an event at NIT Trichy. He has some important things to note about the event, awaiting some replies and help! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) -- Forwarded message -- From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 21:17 Subject: Pragyaan 12 - NIT Trichy To: Swaroop Rao swaroop...@wikimedia.in Forward this to the list and the Chapter, we need a plan ASAP. I spoke to Saagar today. Here are the main issues: Plan: We need a plan of action, and we need it fast. I was asked if this was a contest or a workshop, to which I stated that it was a Workshop. Here are the key points we discussed: 1 Date/Day/Schedule: The event is spread over four days, and is jam packed. We need to schedule it properly, and get a follow up mechanism in place. 2 ISO certification: Pragyaan is the fourth Technical fest in India to get ISO certification. Because of this, the organisers, have to sign an MoU with the organiser/promoter of each individual event. I believe the chapter needs to do something about this. The main purpose of this is to show that the event is taking place and to promote it. 3 Swags: I was suggested that we have a small trivia session thru the session and give out same Laptop stickers/tees/etc. 4 Accommodation: This is really tight. We need to inform the number of participants beforehand to make sure that we can get accommodation. I know Bala won't be able to make it. What about other Community members - Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem, Bangalore, Kerala? Do remember, this is NIT Trichy. A BIG event. I believe Tinu and Logic had done something at NITT earlier. Hoping that they would do it this time as well. Hoping for a response soon. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. HA! I scored 72.9% in my first semester, after scoring 38% in my 12th. Ab bolo, kaun kiska baap. ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: SOPA - Action
Srikanth R (User:Rsrikanth05) requested me to forward this mail to the Wikimedia India list. Please do have a look. -- Forwarded message -- From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:27 PM Subject: SOPA To: Swaroop Rao swaroop...@wikimedia.in Note: Forward to the India mailing list on my behalf please. Heya Mike, Since you are an admin on Sa, I thought this would be of importance to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action Do intimate other Indic languges also. The deadline to submit proposals to the Foundation is less than 13 hours away. Take a call and spread the word. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. -- Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch) ___ 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] What's in it for me?
I've faced this many times, and I think most of us who do outreach work have faced this. I've had people asking me first thing: What's the pay like?. Its quite difficult to convince people who approach it with that mindset. I've not always succeeded, but what I usually do is tell them the example of English Wikipedia and its enormous reach; I go on saying Hey, doesn't your son use Wikipedia for his assignment? Did you know its written by people like you and me? You can write too, and your knowledge will reach millions across the world. Sometimes, I encourage people to write about their Hometown, or upload pictures of it. Geography is one of the easier things to work on. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 22:31, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry guys, looks like Google chopped off the bottom of my mail again. What I said was, when I asked my friend to contribute to the Tamil Media Contest, he told me- when I'm not getting paid for all my photos, why should I upload? Anyone who's gone thru similar experiences and can help me out? On 12/16/11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Heya all. I just wanted to share this quick mail with you and get your feedback. Over the past two years, I've actively been part of Wiki outreach efforts. Thru meetups, volunteering for the Bangalore Samskrit academy, trying to convince friends, classmates etc. I've had a lot of negative experiences with people askin me- What's in it for me? Mere liye kya hai? Ennaku enna kadaka porthu? I get laughed at when I say I'm doing gu voluntarily. Infact recently, when I tried to get a friend to contribute to our -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers Gang, Ukkadam, Coimbatore. My Commons uploads, now exceeding 75. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05 ___ 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 Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please add Sanskrit 2003 web font to Sanskrit Wikipedia
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 16:40, ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.comwrote: NonCommericial - I think use in Wikipedia is non-commerical. Wikipedia use is non-commercial, but since it is open for reuse, the reuse need not be necessarily non-commercial. NoDerivs - Do the font need to be modified for using as web font? It is clearly stated that it can be used as a web font. 2011/12/15 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il Either of NonCommercial and NoDerivs clauses in the license make it invalid for usage in Wikimedia projects, because they limit the usage of the font. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2011/12/15 ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.com: In that case please add Sidhanta font to Sanskrit wikipedia, it has most feature rich font for Sanskrit. (Sanskrit 2003 is better in display) http://svayambhava.org/index.php/en/sanskrit/fonts Also it is clearly stated that it can be used as a web font. Siddhnata font software (including font variations and Vaidika IME) is published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Its Latin and Cyrillic glyph sets (based on DejaVu font can be used according to free license. Siddhanta can be used as a web font. 2011/12/14 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 20:16, ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.com wrote: I just saw that web fonts facility have been added to Indic wikis. On Hindi and Sanskrit wikipedia, there are Lohit Devanagari and Samyak Devanagari fonts. I request to add Sanskrit 2003 web font to Sanskrit wikipedia (and if possible to other Devanagari script based wikis) because it is the best Unicode font to display Sanskrit text. It is also free, so there is no problem to use it for this purpose. As far as I could check, it is not a freely licensed font. They are only free for personal use. I could not find a clear license statement for it though, If you could find it, please point it to us. If its freely licensed, please file a bug request here[1] [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensionscomponent=WebFonts -- 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 -- Shrish Benjwal Sharma (श्रीश बेंजवाल शर्मा) ~~~ If u can't beat them, join them. ePandit: http://epandit.shrish.in/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ 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 -- *Shrish Benjwal Sharma* *(श्रीश बेंजवाल शर्मा http://hindi.shrish.in)* ~~~ *If u can't beat them, join them.* ePandit http://epandit.shrish.in/:* *http://epandit.shrish.in/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) ___ 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] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!
He's User:Karthikndr on enwiki. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 01:22, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiosity, Who is Karthik? Anyone from Mumbai community aware? a username perhaps? Regards Theo On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hey folks, I just saw that Indian editor Karthik Nadar is in the banners today, with a beautiful appeal. Go, India! https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1202_KN/en/USutm_source=B11_1202_Karthik2utm_medium=sitenoticeutm_campaign=C11_1202_DayvMat_USlanguage=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page Thanks, Sue Here's the text: From Wikipedia author Karthik Nadar On the day a terrorist attack ripped through the heart of my city, Wikipedia changed my life. The 2011 bombings in Mumbai made international headlines, but at the moment the crisis struck, there was no straightforward information about what had happened. I knew I couldn’t be the only one looking for answers. So I went out to take photos, uploaded a map I pasted together, and made sure the Wikipedia article on the incident would help people make sense of the chaos. Since then, I’ve made thousands of edits to Wikipedia articles. My experience that day on Wikipedia made my passion for photojournalism clear, and I’ve followed that path ever since. I felt so grateful for Wikipedia, and when I learned how it stays online, I donated 250 rupees to do my part. Will you make a donation to keep this valuable resource available around the world? Wikipedia enables us to share the world. With 470 million different visitors every month, it’s revolutionized the way we consume and spread information -- sometimes even down to the moment it happens. And it does it all for free -- with zero ads, under 1,000 servers and fewer than 100 staff. That’s amazing. Just look at Google or Facebook. They have hundreds of thousands of servers and tens of thousands of staff. It’s no wonder Wikipedia is the 5th most popular and most visited site online. And it’s also no wonder why they need support every year from people like me and you. Will you pitch in $5, $20, $50 or whatever you think Wikipedia is worth to you? Thanks, Karthik Nadar Wikipedia author -- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!
BTW, I forgot to update; Patricia (from the fundraising team I suppose) just told me that they're working on Debit card and other means of payment for INR this year. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:44, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Sue, a quick question, forgive me if this thing has already been taken to your consideration. many Indians having no credit cards want to donate to WMF, is that possible for the technical team to add Netbanking and Debit card payment gateway for Indian banks. Secondly if this is not possible for this year is that possible to inform the non credit card holders that they can possible pay the Wikimedia India Chapter on behalf of WMF and the chapter can transfer the funds later to the foundation. regards Subha On 3 December 2011 00:25, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 23:13, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, I just saw that Indian editor Karthik Nadar is in the banners today, with a beautiful appeal. Go, India! https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1202_KN/en/USutm_source=B11_1202_Karthik2utm_medium=sitenoticeutm_campaign=C11_1202_DayvMat_USlanguage=enuselang=encountry=USreferrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page Thanks, Sue We still love Brandon :) ! or atleast thats what the CentralNotice allocation says, may be it takes a day or 2 more. For those curious he is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr -- 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 -- * ସୁ ଭା ସି ସ ପା ଣି ଗା ହି ** S u b h a s i s a P a n i g a h i ** ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ ___ Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia.
Agree with Tinu; What's in a name? ...as long as the list has some proper name, its ok. Also, traffic in the new list might pick up once it is actually started. However, I don't think that this should be used as a substitute for onwiki discussions. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 15:08, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: +1 for new mailing list for Wikimedia projects in English from India. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: +1 to Tinu, If more traffic starts hitting the list regarding en wiki articles (like yesterday), a separate list is an absolute must. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote: +1 to what Tinu said. Regards On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:31 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: I agree with Pradeep - there are already too many lists, the last thing we need is to follow another for WP:India. Why cant we just continue on wikimediaindia-I? +1 We should wait for significantly more traffic on discussions around India-related articles on the English Wikipedia before considering the creation of a new mailing list. anirudh -- From: tinucher...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:18:30 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creation of mailing list for co-ordination of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia. My first preference goes for something on the lines of wikimedia-in-eng , basically a list for the Indian Wikipedian community contributing to en.wiki and other English Wikimedia projects. wikiproject-india-en was in case there is much opposition to oh , we already have a English Wikipedia list :) Either of the name, I am personally ok, the purpose remains the same :D -Tinu Cherian On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm, my stand has been that the union set of english Wikipedians in India with WikiProject India article space also forms another genuine indic language community - especially since English is the secondary official language of our nation. In that case. the community must have a list of its own. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: IMO wikiproject-india-en speaks for itself and would be good. regards Subha On 30 November 2011 05:50, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: While wikimediaindia-l is the main mailing list of Wikimedia Community in India, a larger discussion of English Wikipedia/ns in India or WikiProject India on en.wiki is out of scope on wikimediaindia-l and its subscribers. While most of the Indian language Wikipedia have their separate mailing lists, co-ordination collaboration among the Indian Wikimedians contributing to English Wikipedia has become the most difficult. English Wikipedia mailing list wikien-l is too boarder scope of discussing them. I am aware that we have too many lists, but it is expected as the community grows in size and creation of separate lists is justified as long as we have enough activity on/around it. I am of the opinion that India-related content and community of Indian Wikipedians on English Wikipedia is as equally important to grow as Indic language Wikipedias. In this context, I would propose the creation of a wikimedia-in-eng or wikiproject-india-en mailing list. Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed in principle with Pradeep, but let some talk of content take place here. I'm sure the majority of wikimedia-l readers do not have WT:IN on their watchlist. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: I think the list should be used more as a helpful pointer and as much discussion as possible should be done on Wikipedia itself. I think there are more lists than Wikipedians can handle and more time is spent on the lists than on editing Wikipedia, which is what we're primarily here for. +1. warm regards, Pradeep User:Prad2609 -- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:14:00 +0530 From: parakara.gh...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA I agree more with Swaroop, but since the English wikipedia is picking itself up and dusting itself again, we may want one. --Re, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [[Brian Horrocks]] not an Indian FA
Good idea, but then, shouldn't we be using WT:INhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:INfor these? :) Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 21:47, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: I think what Srikanth meant is, creating a separate mailing list for English wikipedians from India to discuss their topics of interest. I too think that is a good idea. Shiju On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Is that what you mean, Srikanth? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Recognized_content I was also not aware till Pranav dhowed me the link today. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Ashwin, I think the Indian English community needs a list of it's own. Re, On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I found TinuCherianBot had mistakenly made Brian Horrocks, a British Army general unconnected with India except for his birth, as part of WikiProject India, a false positive. Sorry guys, he has nothing to do with us. We are now down another FA. 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 Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wikipedias - Sanskrit
Thanks Shiju for the compilation. I've made my notes on the talk page. Thanks, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 23:29, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, As mentioned in the last two mails, as part of the Indic Languages initiatives of India Programshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages, I have been having detailed discussions with a wide range of Indic language wikipedians for the past few weeks. I already shared the summary of the discussions I had with with the Assamesehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Assamese/Discussions/2011and Hindihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Hindi/Discussions/2011wikimedians. Today I'm sharing a summary of the discussions I had with the Sanskrit wikipedians. It is available here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Sanskrit/Discussions/2011 I must say the progress made by Sanskrit wiki projects in the past 2 years is marvelous, especially considering the fact that its speaker base is too low (compared to the rest of the 20 indic languages having wikipedia). The amount of activism is Sanskrit wikisource is also very high. I am sure Sanskrit wiki community is the one wiki community that is going to utilize all the sister projects at its fullest. Sanskrit wiki workshops are happening all over the country. Today I attended a Sanskrit wiki workshop in a Sanskrit institution at New Dellhi. In Delhi itself Sanskrit wikipedians are planning many other Sanskrit wiki activities. With so many volunteers involved in the projects I am sure Sanskrit is going to make good progress. Inviting your comments on the talk page. Regards, Shiju Alex ___ Wikisa-l mailing list wikis...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-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] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail
I couldn't have said it better Bala. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 16:39, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: *That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be that an editor (in this case who happened to be a student) contributed content to an article. It would (almost routinely) reviewed by other editors who coudl/would improve it or point out issues. One of the aspects that the better students have fed back to us is the value of the collaboration with the global editing community.* Hisham, i was an online mentor for seven students in the PPP in the previous sem. I have done this before. I am normally a patient newbie helper. I help tens of newbies every day in Ta and en wiki. But if you make it an obligation for me to check through the edits of forty odd guys, who turn in assignments and are only angling for marks in their courses, you are turning me off. You heard what another OA surya had to say about this . You are looking at OAs as full time employees - they have a job to do, why not do it. Remember this is a volunteer project and we volunteers have only X amount of time to donate to wikipedia, OAs have other interests in Wikipedia - being a OA isnt supposed to take up all my wikitime. I certainly did not sign up for following every edit of a COEP student who shows no sign of actually wanting to voluntarily contribute to Wikipedia or any sign of learning. My onwiki time is better spent elsewhere. This is the biggest difference between my PPP experience and IEP experience. In the former i had 7 mentees, who asked me for help, when they ran into trouble, listened to what i had to say, were basically competent, produced workable quality content. I was happy to improve their content as the workload was manageable. In the IEP, i had 40, who never asked me anything (instead i am expected to go through their edits). But could be seen arguing with people who tag their content for copyright violation, adding the same copyvio content after being reverted multiple times. Getting their CAs to plead with admins if they get blocked. So for the next phase do not design a OA as someone who will track every edit of a student and correct all his mistakes - Such a thing might be possible with one on one mentoring, but even then it routinely fails in the regular adopt a editor arrangements that happen in en wiki. But with five or seven students (forget about forty) it is impossible for me to log in daily, check if they have edited, check out the diffs, cross check for copyvio and then give him/her a feedback. On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Nov 12, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: Many of us went through college recently know its not *Some*, its *Most*. Anything called assignment and graded will be copy-pasted even by the brightest 5% of students in class who would have potential to do on their own. +1. with Srikanth This is the SINGLE MOST important thing to remember for the future. Lets cut the political correctness and putting the blame everywhere else than where it belongs - the students and faculty involved My view is not driven by political correctness but I do want to avoid generalising all students and all faculty. Just take a look a the user talk and article discussion pages and it's immediately apparent that quite a few students and teachers wouldn't deserve blame. Many students did make mistakes - but they made the same mistakes that many newbies. So here is what is to be done: 1) *Keep the number low* - Agree and we need to work on how we select the colleges and faculty and classes and students. 2) *Penalise those who copy paste* This is something that can (and should) be led by the faculty. Some teachers have shown the way on how this can be done. 3) *The CA to student ratio has to be 5 to 1. * Clearly the student:CA ratio needs to be reduced significantly. ...but did you mean students:CA 5:1 or 1:5? Anything more seems to non-workable. Online Ambassadors/mentors are not handholders and error correctors. I signed up to be an online ambassador. But stopped reading the IEP mails that were sent to me after i realised, that the IEP program essentially wanted to me to do the students' work. That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be that an editor (in this case who happened to be a student) contributed content to an article. It would (almost routinely) reviewed by other editors who coudl/would improve it or point out issues. One of the aspects that the better students have fed back to us is the value of the collaboration with the global editing community. hisham ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust
Glad to hear that, will definitely help programs in India. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) Steering committee, United States Education Program On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:24, Deepon Saha hideeponh...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Hisham, Looking forward to the new programs... :) Deepon On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Announcement of Wikimedia India Program Trust Congratulations, Hisham. I know this has been a lot of work for you and the team over the last few months. I look forward to seeing the programs that the trust and the chapter develop together. There's tons of work to do. :-) -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 19:33, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Many of us went through college recently know its not *Some*, its *Most*. Anything called assignment and graded will be copy-pasted even by the brightest 5% of students in class who would have potential to do on their own. +1. with Srikanth This is the SINGLE MOST important thing to remember for the future. Lets cut the political correctness and putting the blame everywhere else than where it belongs - the students and faculty involved In my four years of college, i copy pasted almost every single assignment given to me. I did not know it was wrong and wouldnt have cared if someone from outside pointed it to me. The attitude i saw from the IEP students is exactly the same. Unless the students are penalised for plagiarism by being failed in the course, they are not going to change the behaviour. And how many of your professors in indian education were concerned that you were copy pasting your assignment. (None of mine cared - i can say with confidence that is the same case in 99% of the cases in India now) So no amount of increasing the number of campus ambassadors, their training, etc would help unless there is a stick involved - How many times did the campus ambassadors tried to tell students not to copy paste?. How many of the students heeded the warning. This issue was raised in Late August. There were two whole months to hammer in the message and it didnt work out. Why? there were no serious implications for the students involved. There is a conversation in Srikanth's en wiki talk page, where a student tries to weasel out of copyvio by giving every excuse in the book - he did not correct his behaviour, but instead tried everything to get the copyvio he added approved. Those who got blocked weaseled, whined and pleaded for an unblock but in many of the cases reverted to the previous behaviour, when they thought they could get away with it. They are socking and trying to remove cleanup comments from the IEP page . Without a no-nonsense approach, you will only gets repeats of such behaviour. So here is what is to be done: 1) *Keep the number low* - The next round should have less than 50 students. No classwide / collegewide blanket programs. Make this a interested students only program. We have clearly demonstrated there is no manpower to handle anything more. We have about exhausted the goodwill of the en wiki community. If this repeats, you are looking at a wholesale blocks for the students and IP addresses. That's true. The enwiki community is losing its patience really. 2) *Penalise those who copy paste* - either they should be failed by their professors. If the professors dont care, drop the program and stop going back to that institution. Wikipedia is a work in progress, we dont need plagiarism by Indian students to shore it up. We are not that desperate. A bit harder to enforce, since academic plagiarism is practised en masse by many professors themselves (not generalizing, just saying that the problem goes way deeper than the students). 3) *The CA to student ratio has to be 5 to 1. *Anything more seems to non-workable. Online Ambassadors/mentors are not handholders and error correctors. I signed up to be an online ambassador. But stopped reading the IEP mails that were sent to me after i realised, that the IEP program essentially wanted to me to do the students' work. Go back to the drawing board. Dont start with 1000. not even a 100, start with a 50. ___ 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 Swaroop Rao Steering Committee member, United States Education Program ___ 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] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail
Also, it seems that CoEP has most of the problems; I think that CoEP being an engineering college, is more rigid in its working than other science/commerce/liberal arts colleges. What we could do is branch out into other streams (other than engineering I mean); Law for example: Why not have law students editing about Intellectual Property Rights (I know the irony we'll have in case we have copyvios out of that). And the course structuring in other colleges are a bit different, so they could accommodate programs like the Wikimedia education programs much easier. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) Steering Committee member, United States Education Program On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 19:39, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 19:33, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Many of us went through college recently know its not *Some*, its *Most*. Anything called assignment and graded will be copy-pasted even by the brightest 5% of students in class who would have potential to do on their own. +1. with Srikanth This is the SINGLE MOST important thing to remember for the future. Lets cut the political correctness and putting the blame everywhere else than where it belongs - the students and faculty involved In my four years of college, i copy pasted almost every single assignment given to me. I did not know it was wrong and wouldnt have cared if someone from outside pointed it to me. The attitude i saw from the IEP students is exactly the same. Unless the students are penalised for plagiarism by being failed in the course, they are not going to change the behaviour. And how many of your professors in indian education were concerned that you were copy pasting your assignment. (None of mine cared - i can say with confidence that is the same case in 99% of the cases in India now) So no amount of increasing the number of campus ambassadors, their training, etc would help unless there is a stick involved - How many times did the campus ambassadors tried to tell students not to copy paste?. How many of the students heeded the warning. This issue was raised in Late August. There were two whole months to hammer in the message and it didnt work out. Why? there were no serious implications for the students involved. There is a conversation in Srikanth's en wiki talk page, where a student tries to weasel out of copyvio by giving every excuse in the book - he did not correct his behaviour, but instead tried everything to get the copyvio he added approved. Those who got blocked weaseled, whined and pleaded for an unblock but in many of the cases reverted to the previous behaviour, when they thought they could get away with it. They are socking and trying to remove cleanup comments from the IEP page . Without a no-nonsense approach, you will only gets repeats of such behaviour. So here is what is to be done: 1) *Keep the number low* - The next round should have less than 50 students. No classwide / collegewide blanket programs. Make this a interested students only program. We have clearly demonstrated there is no manpower to handle anything more. We have about exhausted the goodwill of the en wiki community. If this repeats, you are looking at a wholesale blocks for the students and IP addresses. That's true. The enwiki community is losing its patience really. 2) *Penalise those who copy paste* - either they should be failed by their professors. If the professors dont care, drop the program and stop going back to that institution. Wikipedia is a work in progress, we dont need plagiarism by Indian students to shore it up. We are not that desperate. A bit harder to enforce, since academic plagiarism is practised en masse by many professors themselves (not generalizing, just saying that the problem goes way deeper than the students). 3) *The CA to student ratio has to be 5 to 1. *Anything more seems to non-workable. Online Ambassadors/mentors are not handholders and error correctors. I signed up to be an online ambassador. But stopped reading the IEP mails that were sent to me after i realised, that the IEP program essentially wanted to me to do the students' work. Go back to the drawing board. Dont start with 1000. not even a 100, start with a 50. ___ 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 Swaroop Rao Steering Committee member, United States Education Program ___ 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] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki
The sitenotice is already live on Sanskrit Wikipedia (it is written in Sanskrit, and it reads: How to type Unicode Devanagari). But it doesn't contain screenshots or anything of that sort, just basic help. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 14:07, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 20:27, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it? Infact Sanskrit was one of the early communities to adopt Narayam (before Tamil). Please see the below screenshots for Tamil, you similarly have Input Method dropdown at top of page near Username / Login link. Please hover over it, you would get a dropdown to choose the transliteration option. (Control-M) is the keyboard shortcut to turn it off / on. Gerard / Santhosh / Junaid / Shiju, Should we run site notices with these screenshots on these communities to increase awareness. Tamil wiki projects have a link to typing help on sitenotice and that page contains relevant help. I think it would be better if you ask bug filers to make sure they run sitenotices on wiki post enabling Narayam to spread awareness. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping1.JPG http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping2.JPG -- 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 ___ 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] [Press] Telegraph : It’s a Wiki Wiki world!
I think this is good encouragement for the very young Vaibhav Jain. Good going! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 13:06, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp -- Regards Srikanth.L http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
The subject of the mail is a bit ironic actually ;) Anyway, I guess the copyvios should be ironed out once Online Ambassadors step in. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Good article on the INDIAEDU programs. :) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:05, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: You can't copy-paste this homework Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying is wrong. But this is a big cultural issue, we have to expect and work on it as more and more of the 1000 start to edit. If you wish to help, please sign up for online ambassadors and help the INDIAEDU program participants. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fluffernutter/checks -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: WCI invitation to Indic active Wikipedians
Done it on sa wiki. Let me know if I've done it right (I've never used AWB on sawiki before, nor have I approved any users before). https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sa/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:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage Regards, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 07:57, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Can any administrators of Hindi and Sanskrit wikipedia help ? Naveen Francis Signature powered by http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=footer WiseStamphttp://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=footer -- Forwarded message -- From: Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com Date: 12 August 2011 03:13 Subject: Re: WCI invitation to Indic active Wikipedians To: Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com Cc: Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com, Salman Haroon Wiki de10...@gmail.com, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com, Cherian Tinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Wiki_Outreach#Misc Hindi and Sanskrit couldn't be done because i need Lucia in the CheckWiki page to run she there. The pages are here: To hi.wiki: http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/ विकिपीडिया:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage To sa.wiki: http://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ विकिपीडिया:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships
Hi Vickram, I filled out the scholarship form early this morning (an hour after you posted it). Can I know if the form was submitted successfully? Thanks! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 00:36, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_USformkey=dGNxSzAxUndoOHRGamdDSTFMVGNrd3c6MA#gid=0 Applications are invited for travel/boarding scholarships for WikiConference India 2011. There are a very limited number of such scholarships, and it is also possible to apply for partial assistance, in case you can handle part of the costs on your own - doing so will ensure that more Wikipedians will be able to get assistance. Provisions have been made for participants from special interest groups. Applications will be welcomed until Aug 15, and the decision process will be completed by the first week of September 2011. Please study the form carefully before submission. We look forward to plenty of active participation at the conference, with the help of all Wikipedians. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 36, Issue 19
Vibhi, I suggest you take it cool. I appreciate your enthusiasm in Sa and especially Pi wikipedias; No one is belittling your contributions. First: there was, and is (as of now) approved admin/crat policy on sa wikipedia, and you cannot quote policies which do not exist. Also, I don't think you know what oversight rights are. I do not mean or intend to undermine your contributions or enthusiasm, but I think we'd all appreciate it if you could keep personal comments offlist. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 22:35, Vibhi Jain vibhij...@yahoo.in wrote: Well as it comes to age, i do not think that its a barrier here. As it comes to sysop rights, i am the largest contributor to sa wiki and to pi wiki, where I am a sysop. Well for your information, I have been engaged in contacting organizations for collaborations with pi wiki. Then it comes to bot rights, it is just my AWB account so I can add stub template to pali wikipedia articles. And as it comes to oversight, what are you talking about. I know that oversight are for those who are above 18. And now the removal, I don't think that this right is not given to me, for your information, I have also made a admin policy for sa wiki. Its not that I did it to take a revenge or anything. HPN has been inactive from 2007 on sa wiki and made Mike a crat without community consensus. I also had a fight with him regarding his removal (sorry if he felt angry with me). And who say that I have placed a bid alone, just see the local team, you will also find Mayur there. And its a unofficial bid, who am I to place a bid, its just unofficial bid my friend. Well I don't understand why do you always classify users by seeing their joining date, not their contributions. I also wanted to have a workshop and a meetup before placing a request, and I have been in discussion about that with Mayur, but we need to know are people really interested in this so we can decide whether to raise this issue. Well I don't want to have a fight here, I already had some. Sorry If I did some wrong, But Theo, why do you always disturb me, you also said ''Which right do you want now'' on IRC when I was just having a talk with a user regarding removal of sysop rights. Well If you have any problem, tell it freely to me. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Support from Karnataka Gov. and Samskrita Bharati
I was involved in the discussion thread as well; I am in touch with the people from Samskrita Bharati. The last I heard from them was around 2 months ago, and they seemed to say that the grants are to be approved by the cabinet. Since interest in this grant has renewed among editors, I will ask the representative from Samskrita Bharati for an update on this. Thanks, Swaroop G Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch on Wikipedia) 2nd Semester, Mechanical Engineering, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 20:41, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi The issue about a 1 Cr. grant from Karnataka government for Sanskrit wikipedia was brought up on this list earlier, last year. I saw this recent discussion on Sanskrit Wikipedia between a couple of editors about that grant and support from Samskrita Bharati, have their been any new developments related to it? http://sa.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%B8%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D (the discussion is in English) Salmaan (User:Theo10011) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language wikipedias – 2010 statistical report
Good one! Swaroop G Rao (MikeLynch) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:MikeLynch On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 17:55, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Shiju Alex have prepared a very detailed and informative report based on the statistics of Indian wikipedia projects between 2010 Jan 1 and 2010 Dec 31. You can read it here http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/indian-language-wikipedias-2010-statistical-report/ The numbers give many valuable inputs for the future activities of wikipedia in Indian Languages. Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook
Great to see! On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:32, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: This is awesome :) On Wednesday 16 February 2011 10:25 AM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: hi, Was very surprised to see a lesson on Wikipedia in my brother's 7th std text book today. Picture - http://twitpic.com/40b7oj The content is concerning Wikipedia - compares it with an encyclopedia, details about volunteers contributing to Wikipedia, talks about the presence of Indic language Wikipedia, talks about vandalism. It has the following sub-topics: 1. Introduction 2. What is an encyclopedia? 3. What is Wikipedia? 4. How is Wikipedia created? 5. sidebar: general info on Wikipedia wef September 2009 6. sidebar: How is Wikipedia different from an encyclopedia printed on paper? 7. vandalism 8. Wikipedia policy 9. Request an article warm regards, Pradeep ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason
Using Google Chrome and Windows 7. Unified login on Hindi works for me. Swaroop G Rao 2011/2/14 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com In-line :- On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 02:38, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Unified Login or SUL (Single User Login) is a mechanism which allows users to use a single global login on most of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. It allows to maintain a consistent identity across all linked projects, and no you necessarily don't have to login manually to each Wiki. You first need to Merge your account by visiting [[Special:MergeAccount]] Hi Theo10011/Salmaan, Perhaps I was not explicit before, my account is already merged about a month or a little more back, still to reconfirm had gone yesterday and saw it gave a thumbs up again. In fact, was little disappointed with [Special:MergeAccount] it didn't remember that I had come and merged before. Anyways , tried to access it and again was *not* automatically logged in. Filed a bug on the bugzilla as well, will inform the list if, when, as I get the info. to perform Login Unification. if your particular wiki is not allowing access through SUL and you have to login Manually each time, for example Strategy Wiki does that from time to time, you might need to file a bug. Check with other users on your wiki if this is a consistent issue, and post on VP. For more information, read: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login Salmaan User:Theo10011 snipped -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India map and indian laws
I think that such a measure would only complicate matters, and would present the wrong information to the Indian user. Swaroop G Rao On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 19:02, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Hi, A simpler technical solution will be to show the map that is correct in the India context for all the IP addresses originating from India and for all other IPs, the current one ( I think that is the one recognised by UN) This should give a right solution to all the users. Additionally, on all the pages where India map is presented, entries for both the maps should be given mentioning the context and the disputes. -Sudhanwa On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, There is a discussion going on at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:India#Map about compliance to indian laws about representation of India in maps. According to Indian law it is illegal to show a map that differs from the official map (which includes, Pakistan controlled Kashmir and the Aksai Chin). An editor has raised the concern that using the current map (which shows only areas administered and not areas claimed) is exposing Indian editors to legal liabilities and prosecution. Since the Indian govt has successfully forced organisations like Google and National geographic to show the official map previously and now the foundation has plans for an India office, shouldn't this issue be considered seriously? Should we contacting the foundation legal office about this? regards Bala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone
Many congratulations to the Malayalam Wiki community! Swaroop Rao 2011/1/25 Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com That's fantastic news! It's very inspiring for all newer Wikipedias. Asaf 2011/1/25 Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com Dear All, I am happy to announce that Malayalam wikipedia has crossed the *10 Lakh (1 million) edits* milestone on *2011 January 22*. Malayalam wikipedia is the *first Indian language wikipedia to cross the 10 Lakh milestone*. With almost 250 active editorshttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%82:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82Malayalam wiki community continues to be one of the most active Indian Wiki community. That is the the main reason behind this achievement. Malayalam wikipedia also has the *most number of edits per article *(more than 30) among all theIndian wikis. The information about the *total number of the edits* in some of the major active wikis is provided below. Language wikipedia Number of edits since the wiki is set up Malayalam 1002375 Hindi 913612 Tamil 688891 Marathi 665774 Telugu 578760 Urdu 376948 Kannada 186771 Gujarati 133134 Sanskrit 101517 Data is collected on 2011 January 24. Thanks Shiju Alex -- Forwarded message -- From: Anoop anoop@gmail.com Date: 2011/1/25 Subject: [Wikiml-l] മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ 10 ലക്ഷം എഡിറ്റുകൾ To: Malayalam wiki project mailing list wikim...@lists.wikimedia.org സുഹൃത്തുക്കളേ, ഒരു സന്തോഷ വാർത്ത നിങ്ങളെ എല്ലാവരെയും അറിയിക്കുകയാണ്. മലയാളം വിക്കിപീഡിയയിൽ 10 ലക്ഷം തിരുത്തലുകൾ (Edits) തികഞ്ഞിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇക്കഴിഞ്ഞ ജനുവരി 22-നായിരുന്നു 10 ലക്ഷം തിരുത്തലുകൾ തികഞ്ഞത്. ഈ കടമ്പ കടക്കുന്ന അമ്പത്തി ഒന്നാമത്തെ വിക്കിപീഡിയയാണ് മലയാളം[1]. ഈ കടമ്പ കടന്ന ഏക ഇന്ത്യൻ വിക്കിപീഡിയയും മലയാളമാണ്[1]. ലേഖനങ്ങളുടെ എണ്ണം വർദ്ധിപ്പിക്കുക എന്നത് പ്രാഥമികമായ ലക്ഷ്യമാക്കാതെ, കാമ്പുള്ള ലേഖനങ്ങൾ സൃഷ്ടിക്കുക എന്ന ലക്ഷ്യത്തോടെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നതിന്റെ ഫലമായാണ് ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ ഡെപ്ത് ഉള്ള ഇന്ത്യൻ വിക്കിപീഡിയയും ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതൽ തിരുത്തലുകൾ നടത്തിയ ഇന്ത്യൻ വിക്കിപീഡിയയും മലയാളമായത്. ഈ സ്ഥാനം എന്നെന്നും നിലനിർത്തിപ്പോരാൻ നിങ്ങൾ ഓരോരുത്തരുടെയും സഹകരണം ആവശ്യമാണ്. മറ്റു പ്രധാന ഇന്ത്യൻ ഭാഷാ വിക്കിപീഡിയയിലെ തിരുത്തലുകളുടെ എണ്ണം കാണുക. *ഭാഷ (language)* * തിരുത്തലുകളുടെ എണ്ണം (Number of edits since wiki is set up) * മലയാളം (Malayalam) 1002375 ബംഗാളി (bengali) 922606 ഹിന്ദി (Hindi) 913612 തമിഴ് (Tamil) 688891 മറാത്തി (Marathi) 665774 തെലുഗ് (Telugu) 578760 ഉർദു (Urdu) 376948 കന്നഡ (Kannada) 186771 ഗുജറാത്തി (Gujarati) 133134 സംസ്കൃതം (Sanskrit) 101517 [1] ഈ നേട്ടത്തിൽ പങ്കാളിയായ എല്ലാവർക്കും നന്ദി. *അവലംബം* 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias അനൂപ് ___ Wikiml-l is the mailing list for Malayalam Wikimedia Projects email: wikim...@lists.wikimedia.org Website: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiml-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia presence at the 77th All-India Kannada Sahitya Sammelan.
I can probably make it on saturday or sunday. Just let me know the exact place and time, and I will confirm. I can, of course, speak kannada, and I don't know what you mean by programming language..if it is html, then I can manage that. Swaroop G Rao On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:02, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Ralph work.well.done...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1096315.ece In order to move forward, may I suggest the following: Job description of volunteer: other prerequisites - please list 1. Speak Kannada Yes (mandatory)/No (not required) 2. Programming knowledge Yes (mandatory)/No (not required) 3. 4. Let us not make both mandatory as we'd like to see as many volunteers participating as possible. However, if anyone who's good with speaking in Kannada can take the lead, it'd be useful. I can step in if no one else does. Ideally, it would be nice to see some new volunteers taking the lead. Copying this email to the Kannada Wikipedia Mailing list as well. 1. List of names/email of volunteers who will be present at the Kannada Wikipedia booth on a. 4 Fri b. 5 Sat c. 6 Sun Has the booth been confirmed? 2. Location map of venue/hall/room - exact details to prevent frantic searching for the right place. 3. Bus from Shivajinagar/Majestic/... 4. Coordinator name mobile 9. 5. Please bring (your own) snack/lunch, booth will be working without a break! Cannot afford to lose a single visitor. 6. Script: What should/should not be said. It may be impossible to meet before the event for the orientation but a virtual classroom will address that need. http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/453323-let-s-learn-to-use-wiziq-virtual-classroom It would be good to meet sometime to discuss all this. I can be of help. Ralph, would you be able to send me your phone number off the list? -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia presence at the 77th All-India Kannada Sahitya Sammelan.
I can probably make it on saturday or sunday. Just let me know the exact place and time, and I will confirm. I can, of course, speak kannada, and I don't know what you mean by programming language..if it is html, then I can manage that. Swaroop G Rao On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:58, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Ralph, This is indeed a great opportunity to create greater awareness about the Kannada wikipedia. We need a lot more contributors to Kannada wikipedia. Exhibitions are hectic but p;pose the best outreach opportunity. I though of sharing some learnings from the recent exhibit stall we had at the World Sanskrit Book fair for you and the other volunteers to consider: - These exhibitions tend to draw lot of crowds and can be very exhausting. - There needs to be 4 volunteers at a given time in the stall. - Volunteers need to be in shifts of 2 hours to be effective and retain energy reserves. - Most of the questions in event like these are general awareness, what they can do as readers, how they need to do if they need to contribute (whom to contact). Discussions will not be very technical. (except in the cases of very few visitors) - Having pamphlets is a a great help with the links to wikimedia.in, kannada wikipedia and other projects, India meetup page. We struggled writing the links through the 2 days as we did not have any pamphlets. - We now have the banners from the W10 event in Bangalore. These will be of great use. - Take the wikireader, it generates a lot of interest. It is now with HPN. - Suggest 3-4 laptops with a data card each. This is better than using a single projector. We did not use a projector. One to one discussions are most effective. - Take a a few notebooks to write down contacts of people who want help to become contributors. - You will also run into people who would want to give away content they have created to wikipedia. This is as always a great opportunity. - From our past experience, the volunteers knowing wikipedia (even using is good). Key messages to communicate can be shared with the team. The general public is not very well informed on specifics of wikipedia except being aware. Many may not know about it in Indian languages. - The volunteers need the ability to communicate and relate to the varied audience and backgrounds. This is the most important skill than even being insightful. - Have at least one senior wikipedian in the stall to answer the difficult or detailed questions. - Overlap some volunteers across days to carry the learning and experience of earlier days across subsequent days. - Expect people to ask questions about Kanaja and other similar projects. They may also have stalls. Best wishes for the event. regards Arun Bangalore, India www.twitter.com/arunram On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Ralph work.well.done...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article1096315.ece In order to move forward, may I suggest the following: Job description of volunteer: other prerequisites - please list 1. Speak Kannada Yes (mandatory)/No (not required) 2. Programming knowledge Yes (mandatory)/No (not required) 3. 4. 1. List of names/email of volunteers who will be present at the Kannada Wikipedia booth on a. 4 Fri b. 5 Sat c. 6 Sun 2. Location map of venue/hall/room - exact details to prevent frantic searching for the right place. 3. Bus from Shivajinagar/Majestic/... 4. Coordinator name mobile 9. 5. Please bring (your own) snack/lunch, booth will be working without a break! Cannot afford to lose a single visitor. 6. Script: What should/should not be said. It may be impossible to meet before the event for the orientation but a virtual classroom will address that need. http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/453323-let-s-learn-to-use-wiziq-virtual-classroom Await your comments. Thanks. Ralph ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
