[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter Monthly Report - June

[Priyanka Tiwari]

Greetings from Wikimedia India !!



Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of June 2016.
Looking forward for your valuable feedback.


*EVENTS*

*Call for membership to Wikimedia India Chapter –*

WMIN sent Renewal reminders to all its existing members. Apart from that,
Announcement for New membership has been made on all language communities’
mailing list & India mailing list.



Membership can be availed at individual and at institutional level. Members
get to be a part of the Wikimedia Chapter and its mission. They can
participate in voting procedure and standing for the Executive Committee
membership in the elections of Wikimedia Chapter.



For membership form, please visit here

.




*Wiki loves earth India 2016 -*



*Wiki Loves Earth* (*WLE*) - an annual international photographic
competition held during the month of June, organized worldwide by the
Wikipedia community members with the help of local Wikimedia affiliates
across the globe. Wikimedia India is conducting this competition in India.
Participants take pictures of *local natural heritage and scenic landscape* in
their countries, and upload them to Wikimedia Commons
.



The aim of event is to highlight the conservation areas of the
participating countries with the goal to encourage people to capture
pictures of these sights, and to put them under a free licence which can
then be re-used not only in Wikipedia but everywhere by everyone.



Currently, around 32,000+ images have been uploaded so far, which makes
this program one of the highest image uploading program so far. Ranging
from Van Vihar National Park to The natural beauty of Assam, participants
have covered Indian Heritage Panorama.


To check image count so far, please visit -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India

 To view photos and the details of the event, please visit -
http://wikilovesearth.co.in/




*Featured Wikimedian –*



*Kartik Mistry* is the most prolific Wikipedian on Gujarati Wikipedia in
recent times. He has 10,000+ edits on Gujarati Wikipedia, 1,000 on English
Wikipedia, 5,000+ on Wikidata. He has uploaded 100 pics on Commons. He is
member of Language Team of Wikimedia Foundation. As told by his fellow
community member Nizil shah, Kartik was highly instrumental in creating
Language Input Tool which made editing in vernacular languages easier.
Kartik is now currently working with Language Team which has created a very
useful Content Translation Tool. This tool is one of the most useful tools
ever created in recent times. This Content Translation Tool was used to
translate more than 80,000 articles in a span of 1.5 years.





*WMIN participation in TTT and MWT –*



EC member Abhinav Srivastava and Sanket Oswal attended Train-the-Trainer
(TTT
)
and MediaWiki Training (MWT)
 as
Resource attendees.



TTT (Train-the-Trainer) was held in Bangalore on 15th- 17th June 2016. It
was attended by English, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Assamese, Kannada,
Maithili , Marafthi , Urdu , Odia wikipedians.



MWT (MediaWiki Training) - a residential training workshop to groom
technical leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members.
It was orgranized on 17th- 19th May 2016 in Centre for Internet & Society,
Bangalore.




*Quarterly meetup -*



WMIN & CIS-A2K scheduled their quarterly meetup on 18th June.




*Indian WIkimedians at Wikimania – *



Indian Wikimedians Satdeep Gill, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Rohini, Shyamal,
Subhashish, Sailesh, Pranayraj, Harvinder and many more attended Wikimania
2016



For more details, please visit here

.





*Wikipedia Summit Nashik -*


Wiki Summit Nashik was organized on 26th June 2016 at IEI hall, Nashik. The
event provided a common platform for all Wikimedians to meet and share
their views, discuss challenges and exchange useful tips, best practices
and other information. The Summit was open for participation of existing
editors and for students who wish to learn wikipedia editing.


The common discussion points included the following -

· Best practices followed by community.

· Spread awareness regarding Wikimedia projects.

· Pitch for increasing content on languages like Hindi and Marathi
Wikipedia.

· Conduct outreach by discussing Wikipedia and other projects with
students and faculty.

· Government and other organization Tie-ups.





*WikiConference India 2016 -*



WMIN is actively involved in organizing the WCI 2016, including
Scholarship, Finance & Sponsorship Committees.



*Current Updates of the event :*

·  PEG request for WCI 2016

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - April and May 2016 Monthly Reports

[Priyanka Tiwari]

Greetings from Wikimedia India !!

Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of April and May
2016. Looking forward for your valuable feedback.

Events

*Affiliate-selected Board seats –*

Successful candidates were *Christophe Henner* and *Nataliia Tymkiv*. A
total of 40 affiliates (including 39 chapters and the sole Thematic
Organisation) voted.

For the last 10 years, Christophe Henner served as a board member and led a
successful Wikimedia France reorganization. In December 2012, Nataliia
Tymkiv joined Wikimedia Ukraine. She was shortly elected as a Board Member
and have been on Board of Wikimedia Ukraine ever since.

For more details, please visit -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Results



*Hyderabad Meetup on 15th May –*

The Wikipedia Meetup Hyderabad9 was the ninth edition of
Wikipedia/Wikimedia Meetup in Hyderabad held on 15th of May, 2016.

The meetup was held as a part of a monthly get-together of Wikipedians
(contributors and users), predominantly Telugu Wikipedians- to meet up,
discuss ongoing projects, share experiences, reach out and advocate for
Wikipedia and Wikimedia

For more details, please visit -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Hyderabad/Hyderabad9


*Pune meetup on 21st May –*

The Wikipedia Meetup Pune was held on 21st May, 2016. The meetup is held as
a part of a series of regular get-togethers of Wikipedians (contributors
and users) - which majorly consist of Marathi contributors. The main agenda
was to discuss the ongoing projects, reach outs and experience sharing.

For more details, please visit -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune23



*WikiConference India Logo finalization –*

Logo Challenge competition was organized to create logo for WikiConference
India 2016. Competition details can be viewed at -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Logo_Challenge

After voting by community, the result was published at - https://

meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Logo_Challenge#Selected_Logo


The final selected logo was designed by Manoj, who is a design student and
FOSS enthusiast.. Final logo for WLE can be viewed at -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_conference_2016_logo_v2.png by
Manojopenworks



*Formation of Advisory Board –*


The chapter’s first in-office advisers are *Karthik Nadar, Satdeep Gill,
Yann Forget, Dhaval Vyas*. Wikimedia India takes immense pride in having
them on board.


*Wiki Loves Earth –*

Wiki Loves Earth (WLE) is an annual international photographic competition
that will commence in June, organized worldwide by the Wikipedia community
members with the help of local Wikimedia affiliates across the globe. Wikimedia
India is conducting this competition in India. Participants will take
pictures of local natural heritage and scenic landscape in their countries,
and upload them to Wikimedia Commons.


The aim of event is to highlight the conservation areas of the
participating countries with the goal to encourage people to capture
pictures of these sights, and to put them under a free licence which can
then be re-used not only in Wikipedia but everywhere by everyone.


1st phase of Wiki Loves Earth started with full swing. 20 countries have
started their national level version of the competition -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016



*Upcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s New Readers research in India -*


WMF team will be in India from June 13 to 27. The research will focus on:

·  Urban, semi-urban, and rural internet users.

·  in Hindi, Tamil, and English languages.

·  From education, technology, and rural industry backgrounds.

·  Around the Delhi (including nearby Noida and Gurgaon) and Chennai areas.




*PEG Draft for WCI2016 in April Month –*


WikiConference India 2016 is India's national Wikimedia event that will
provide a common platform for all Indic Wikimedians to meet and share their
views, tell about their works and activities in a national-level event and
discuss the challenges they are facing to execute their projects and
exchange useful tips, best practices and other information.
The PEG Draft for WikiConference India 2016 was live and available for
vetting and consideration by the Grant approval committee in the month of
April. For more details, please visit -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/PEG_Draft



*Featured Wikimedian for April month -*


Arnab Dutta

 is one of the most profilic and energetic Bengali Wikimedians from India.
He has been editing since April 2008 and has over 34,000 edits till date.
He has created more than 1400 articles on a wide range of subjects
including Hinduism, Buddhism and West Bengal. Arnab says his first article,
a Bengali literature piece was copied from his class notes but later 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - March 2016 Monthly Report

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

> I second Sudhanwa's comments? Why the silence? If its bad news, let us all
> know!
>


Sharing a bad news (if it is there)  will help reduce stress. All of us can
then try to find some solution to it.
Moreover, there are many people like Ashwin, Arun, Arjuna, myself and many
more across the country who want to help out WMIN and take it further.
If nobody speaks up and tells us the current situation, their experience
and energies are not utilised at all.

Regards
-Sudhanwa




>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
>  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Except for "Wikimedian for the month", there is hardly anything on the
> > activities of WMIN.
> >
> > What is the current status of EC members, what is the fiancial situation,
> > what are the projects being worked out??   Absolutely nothing is coming
> out
> > from EC for the last few months.. rather for an year or so.
> >
> > Can EC send updates on these.
> >
> > Regards
> > -Sudhanwa
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Priyanka Tiwari <
> priyankatw...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Greetings from Wikimedia India!
> >>
> >> Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of March 2016.
> >> Looking forward for your valuable feedback.
> >>
> >>
> >> EVENTS
> >>
> >>
> >> SETTING UP OF ADVISORY COUNCIL AT WIKIMEDIA INDIA:
> >>
> >>
> >> The primary objective of setting up an advisory board at Wikimedia India
> >> is to receive support, suggestions, guidance, advice and help in
> achieving
> >> chapter’s objective from distinguished individuals having excelled in
> their
> >> respective fields and mission. The advisory board members would provide
> a
> >> non-binding advice to the Executive Committee Members, Wikimedia India
> Staff
> >> and the community comprising of long list of editors across different
> >> language groups.
> >>
> >>
> >> The function of the advisory board would be to offer assistance to the
> >> chapter with anything from legal advice to management of finances to
> carry
> >> forward the goals of the chapter. Advisory board members would provide
> the
> >> chapter with new knowledge, development of strategic thinking and
> possible
> >> alternatives based on their expertise from different fields.
> >>
> >>
> >> The advisory board would in turn strengthen the executive committee and
> >> wikimedia staff to better execute their work, but does not interfere
> with
> >> either the executive committee or wikimedia india staff regarding the
> >> disclosure of confidential documents or forceful execution of their
> advices.
> >>
> >>
> >> Community members volunteered for Advisory Committee including Dhaval,
> >> Sripathy, Yann, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Satdeep Gill, Adethya, Karthik
> Nadar.
> >> The long discussion on the appointment process, views and opinions from
> >> various community members and Mr. Arun Ramarathnam made it a worth for
> >> inputs and amendments to be taken further.
> >>
> >>
> >> WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION AFFILIATE BOARD SELECTION:
> >>
> >>
> >> The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for
> >> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as the members of
> Wikimedia
> >> India have to accordingly vote for two members for the organisation.
> >>
> >>
> >> Community members poured in their views in the mailing list. Suggestions
> >> were rolling in for support to different candidates. Siska Doviana and
> Jan
> >> Ainali were the major names in support for from the community.
> >>
> >>
> >> We request the community members to kindly express their opinions and
> >> suggestions for the same. Please visit the links below to find more
> relevant
> >> details.
> >>
> >>  1.) About Affiliate Board
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats
> >>
> >>  2.) Nominated Candidates
> >>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations
> >>
> >> 3.) Timeline
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> FEATURED WIKIMEDIAN:
> >>
> >>
> >> Featured Wikimedian for the month of March 2016 - Baljeet Dhaliwal.
> >>
> >>
> >> Baljeet Dhaliwal is a Punjabi Wikimedian currently studying in the ninth
> >> grade. Inspired by Charan Gill, father of another Wikimedian Satdeep
> Gill,
> >> Baljeet began editing in mid June 2015 and is now one of the youngest
> and
> >> most active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia. He mostly edits articles
> related
> >> to computers and has created the articles of almost all the basic
> components
> >> of computer in the Punjabi Wikipedia.
> >>
> >>
> >> A source of inspiration for his fellow Wikimedians, he is often
> described
> >> as a quick learner. Baljeet was one of the most prolific contributors
> at the
> >> Wikipedia Asian Month drive with 42 articles and was honored as a
> Wikipedia
> >> Asian Ambassador. Baljeet says he feels proud to 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - March 2016 Monthly Report

[Arun Ramarathnam]

Thanks Priyanka. Keep the coming on an ongoing  basis.

Look forward to see more initiatives and activities.

Do not hesitate to reach out to ask for any help for the chapter.

Regards
Arun
On 11 Apr 2016 00:29, "Priyanka Tiwari"  wrote:

> Greetings from Wikimedia India!
>
> Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of March 2016.
> Looking forward for your valuable feedback.
>
>
> *EVENTS*
>
>
> *SETTING UP OF ADVISORY COUNCIL AT WIKIMEDIA INDIA:*
>
>
> The primary objective of setting up an advisory board at Wikimedia India
> is to receive support, suggestions, guidance, advice and help in achieving
> chapter’s objective from distinguished individuals having excelled in their
> respective fields and mission. The advisory board members would provide a
> non-binding advice to the Executive Committee Members, Wikimedia India
> Staff and the community comprising of long list of editors across different
> language groups.
>
>
> The function of the advisory board would be to offer assistance to the
> chapter with anything from legal advice to management of finances to carry
> forward the goals of the chapter. Advisory board members would provide the
> chapter with new knowledge, development of strategic thinking and possible
> alternatives based on their expertise from different fields.
>
>
> The advisory board would in turn strengthen the executive committee and
> wikimedia staff to better execute their work, but does not interfere with
> either the executive committee or wikimedia india staff regarding the
> disclosure of confidential documents or forceful execution of their
> advices.
>
>
> Community members volunteered for Advisory Committee including Dhaval,
> Sripathy, Yann, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Satdeep Gill, Adethya, Karthik Nadar.
> The long discussion on the appointment process, views and opinions from
> various community members and Mr. Arun Ramarathnam made it a worth for
> inputs and amendments to be taken further.
>
>
> *WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION AFFILIATE BOARD SELECTION: *
>
>
> The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for
> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as the members of Wikimedia
> India have to accordingly vote for two members for the organisation.
>
>
> Community members poured in their views in the mailing list. Suggestions
> were rolling in for support to different candidates. Siska Doviana and Jan
> Ainali were the major names in support for from the community.
>
>
> We request the community members to kindly express their opinions and
> suggestions for the same. Please visit the links below to find more
> relevant details.
>
>  1.) About Affiliate Board
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats
>
>  2.) Nominated Candidates
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations
>
> 3.) Timeline
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016
>
>
>
>
>
> *FEATURED WIKIMEDIAN:*
>
>
> Featured Wikimedian for the month of March 2016 - *Baljeet Dhaliwal
> *
> .
>
>
> Baljeet Dhaliwal is a Punjabi Wikimedian currently studying in the ninth
> grade. Inspired by Charan Gill, father of another Wikimedian Satdeep Gill,
> Baljeet began editing in mid June 2015 and is now one of the youngest and
> most active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia. He mostly edits articles related
> to computers and has created the articles of almost all the basic
> components of computer in the Punjabi Wikipedia.
>
>
> A source of inspiration for his fellow Wikimedians, he is often described
> as a quick learner. Baljeet was one of the most prolific contributors at
> the Wikipedia Asian Month drive with 42 articles and was honored as a
> Wikipedia Asian Ambassador. Baljeet says he feels proud to see his mother
> tongue grow on the internet and vows to contribute more for its growth.
>
> For more details, please visit -
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2016
>
>
>
>
> *NEWS*
>
>
> 1. Scholarships for Wikimania 2016 have been announced. For more details,
> please visit -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2016_WMF_Wikimania_Scholarships
>
>
> 2. Katherine Maher (https://goo.gl/QwRJTa) takes over as the Intermin
> Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation effective 14 March 2016
> (after Lila Tretikov resigned in Feb 2016). Full announcement can be found
> at https://goo.gl/42NfC8 and https://goo.gl/uFhAzk
>
>
> 3. The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is
> accepting proposals from March 14th to April 12th for new ideas to improve
> Wikimedia projects (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG). Funds
> are available (up to $30,000 USD) to support individuals or teams of up to
> four people to implement promising ideas, whether focused on building a new
> tool or gadget, 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - March 2016 Monthly Report

[Ashwin Baindur]

I second Sudhanwa's comments? Why the silence? If its bad news, let us all know!

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Except for "Wikimedian for the month", there is hardly anything on the
> activities of WMIN.
>
> What is the current status of EC members, what is the fiancial situation,
> what are the projects being worked out??   Absolutely nothing is coming out
> from EC for the last few months.. rather for an year or so.
>
> Can EC send updates on these.
>
> Regards
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Priyanka Tiwari 
> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings from Wikimedia India!
>>
>> Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of March 2016.
>> Looking forward for your valuable feedback.
>>
>>
>> EVENTS
>>
>>
>> SETTING UP OF ADVISORY COUNCIL AT WIKIMEDIA INDIA:
>>
>>
>> The primary objective of setting up an advisory board at Wikimedia India
>> is to receive support, suggestions, guidance, advice and help in achieving
>> chapter’s objective from distinguished individuals having excelled in their
>> respective fields and mission. The advisory board members would provide a
>> non-binding advice to the Executive Committee Members, Wikimedia India Staff
>> and the community comprising of long list of editors across different
>> language groups.
>>
>>
>> The function of the advisory board would be to offer assistance to the
>> chapter with anything from legal advice to management of finances to carry
>> forward the goals of the chapter. Advisory board members would provide the
>> chapter with new knowledge, development of strategic thinking and possible
>> alternatives based on their expertise from different fields.
>>
>>
>> The advisory board would in turn strengthen the executive committee and
>> wikimedia staff to better execute their work, but does not interfere with
>> either the executive committee or wikimedia india staff regarding the
>> disclosure of confidential documents or forceful execution of their advices.
>>
>>
>> Community members volunteered for Advisory Committee including Dhaval,
>> Sripathy, Yann, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Satdeep Gill, Adethya, Karthik Nadar.
>> The long discussion on the appointment process, views and opinions from
>> various community members and Mr. Arun Ramarathnam made it a worth for
>> inputs and amendments to be taken further.
>>
>>
>> WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION AFFILIATE BOARD SELECTION:
>>
>>
>> The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for
>> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as the members of Wikimedia
>> India have to accordingly vote for two members for the organisation.
>>
>>
>> Community members poured in their views in the mailing list. Suggestions
>> were rolling in for support to different candidates. Siska Doviana and Jan
>> Ainali were the major names in support for from the community.
>>
>>
>> We request the community members to kindly express their opinions and
>> suggestions for the same. Please visit the links below to find more relevant
>> details.
>>
>>  1.) About Affiliate Board
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats
>>
>>  2.) Nominated Candidates
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations
>>
>> 3.) Timeline
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> FEATURED WIKIMEDIAN:
>>
>>
>> Featured Wikimedian for the month of March 2016 - Baljeet Dhaliwal.
>>
>>
>> Baljeet Dhaliwal is a Punjabi Wikimedian currently studying in the ninth
>> grade. Inspired by Charan Gill, father of another Wikimedian Satdeep Gill,
>> Baljeet began editing in mid June 2015 and is now one of the youngest and
>> most active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia. He mostly edits articles related
>> to computers and has created the articles of almost all the basic components
>> of computer in the Punjabi Wikipedia.
>>
>>
>> A source of inspiration for his fellow Wikimedians, he is often described
>> as a quick learner. Baljeet was one of the most prolific contributors at the
>> Wikipedia Asian Month drive with 42 articles and was honored as a Wikipedia
>> Asian Ambassador. Baljeet says he feels proud to see his mother tongue grow
>> on the internet and vows to contribute more for its growth.
>>
>> For more details, please visit -
>>
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2016
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> NEWS
>>
>>
>> 1. Scholarships for Wikimania 2016 have been announced. For more details,
>> please visit -
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2016_WMF_Wikimania_Scholarships
>>
>>
>> 2. Katherine Maher (https://goo.gl/QwRJTa) takes over as the Intermin
>> Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation effective 14 March 2016
>> (after Lila Tretikov resigned in Feb 2016). Full announcement can be found
>> at https://goo.gl/42NfC8 and https://goo.gl/uFhAzk
>>
>>
>> 3. The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - March 2016 Monthly Report

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Hi,

Except for "Wikimedian for the month", there is hardly anything on the
activities of WMIN.

What is the current status of EC members, what is the fiancial situation,
what are the projects being worked out??   Absolutely nothing is coming out
from EC for the last few months.. rather for an year or so.

Can EC send updates on these.

Regards
-Sudhanwa


On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Priyanka Tiwari 
wrote:

> Greetings from Wikimedia India!
>
> Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of March 2016.
> Looking forward for your valuable feedback.
>
>
> *EVENTS*
>
>
> *SETTING UP OF ADVISORY COUNCIL AT WIKIMEDIA INDIA:*
>
>
> The primary objective of setting up an advisory board at Wikimedia India
> is to receive support, suggestions, guidance, advice and help in achieving
> chapter’s objective from distinguished individuals having excelled in their
> respective fields and mission. The advisory board members would provide a
> non-binding advice to the Executive Committee Members, Wikimedia India
> Staff and the community comprising of long list of editors across different
> language groups.
>
>
> The function of the advisory board would be to offer assistance to the
> chapter with anything from legal advice to management of finances to carry
> forward the goals of the chapter. Advisory board members would provide the
> chapter with new knowledge, development of strategic thinking and possible
> alternatives based on their expertise from different fields.
>
>
> The advisory board would in turn strengthen the executive committee and
> wikimedia staff to better execute their work, but does not interfere with
> either the executive committee or wikimedia india staff regarding the
> disclosure of confidential documents or forceful execution of their
> advices.
>
>
> Community members volunteered for Advisory Committee including Dhaval,
> Sripathy, Yann, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Satdeep Gill, Adethya, Karthik Nadar.
> The long discussion on the appointment process, views and opinions from
> various community members and Mr. Arun Ramarathnam made it a worth for
> inputs and amendments to be taken further.
>
>
> *WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION AFFILIATE BOARD SELECTION: *
>
>
> The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for
> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as the members of Wikimedia
> India have to accordingly vote for two members for the organisation.
>
>
> Community members poured in their views in the mailing list. Suggestions
> were rolling in for support to different candidates. Siska Doviana and Jan
> Ainali were the major names in support for from the community.
>
>
> We request the community members to kindly express their opinions and
> suggestions for the same. Please visit the links below to find more
> relevant details.
>
>  1.) About Affiliate Board
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats
>
>  2.) Nominated Candidates
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations
>
> 3.) Timeline
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016
>
>
>
>
>
> *FEATURED WIKIMEDIAN:*
>
>
> Featured Wikimedian for the month of March 2016 - *Baljeet Dhaliwal
> *
> .
>
>
> Baljeet Dhaliwal is a Punjabi Wikimedian currently studying in the ninth
> grade. Inspired by Charan Gill, father of another Wikimedian Satdeep Gill,
> Baljeet began editing in mid June 2015 and is now one of the youngest and
> most active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia. He mostly edits articles related
> to computers and has created the articles of almost all the basic
> components of computer in the Punjabi Wikipedia.
>
>
> A source of inspiration for his fellow Wikimedians, he is often described
> as a quick learner. Baljeet was one of the most prolific contributors at
> the Wikipedia Asian Month drive with 42 articles and was honored as a
> Wikipedia Asian Ambassador. Baljeet says he feels proud to see his mother
> tongue grow on the internet and vows to contribute more for its growth.
>
> For more details, please visit -
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2016
>
>
>
>
> *NEWS*
>
>
> 1. Scholarships for Wikimania 2016 have been announced. For more details,
> please visit -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2016_WMF_Wikimania_Scholarships
>
>
> 2. Katherine Maher (https://goo.gl/QwRJTa) takes over as the Intermin
> Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation effective 14 March 2016
> (after Lila Tretikov resigned in Feb 2016). Full announcement can be found
> at https://goo.gl/42NfC8 and https://goo.gl/uFhAzk
>
>
> 3. The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is
> accepting proposals from March 14th to April 12th for new ideas to improve
> Wikimedia projects (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG). 

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - March 2016 Monthly Report

[Priyanka Tiwari]

Greetings from Wikimedia India!

Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of March 2016.
Looking forward for your valuable feedback.


*EVENTS*


*SETTING UP OF ADVISORY COUNCIL AT WIKIMEDIA INDIA:*


The primary objective of setting up an advisory board at Wikimedia India is
to receive support, suggestions, guidance, advice and help in achieving
chapter’s objective from distinguished individuals having excelled in their
respective fields and mission. The advisory board members would provide a
non-binding advice to the Executive Committee Members, Wikimedia India
Staff and the community comprising of long list of editors across different
language groups.


The function of the advisory board would be to offer assistance to the
chapter with anything from legal advice to management of finances to carry
forward the goals of the chapter. Advisory board members would provide the
chapter with new knowledge, development of strategic thinking and possible
alternatives based on their expertise from different fields.


The advisory board would in turn strengthen the executive committee and
wikimedia staff to better execute their work, but does not interfere with
either the executive committee or wikimedia india staff regarding the
disclosure of confidential documents or forceful execution of their
advices.


Community members volunteered for Advisory Committee including Dhaval,
Sripathy, Yann, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Satdeep Gill, Adethya, Karthik Nadar.
The long discussion on the appointment process, views and opinions from
various community members and Mr. Arun Ramarathnam made it a worth for
inputs and amendments to be taken further.


*WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION AFFILIATE BOARD SELECTION: *


The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as the members of Wikimedia
India have to accordingly vote for two members for the organisation.


Community members poured in their views in the mailing list. Suggestions
were rolling in for support to different candidates. Siska Doviana and Jan
Ainali were the major names in support for from the community.


We request the community members to kindly express their opinions and
suggestions for the same. Please visit the links below to find more
relevant details.

 1.) About Affiliate Board
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats

 2.) Nominated Candidates
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations

3.) Timeline
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016





*FEATURED WIKIMEDIAN:*


Featured Wikimedian for the month of March 2016 - *Baljeet Dhaliwal
*
.


Baljeet Dhaliwal is a Punjabi Wikimedian currently studying in the ninth
grade. Inspired by Charan Gill, father of another Wikimedian Satdeep Gill,
Baljeet began editing in mid June 2015 and is now one of the youngest and
most active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia. He mostly edits articles related
to computers and has created the articles of almost all the basic
components of computer in the Punjabi Wikipedia.


A source of inspiration for his fellow Wikimedians, he is often described
as a quick learner. Baljeet was one of the most prolific contributors at
the Wikipedia Asian Month drive with 42 articles and was honored as a
Wikipedia Asian Ambassador. Baljeet says he feels proud to see his mother
tongue grow on the internet and vows to contribute more for its growth.

For more details, please visit -

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2016




*NEWS*


1. Scholarships for Wikimania 2016 have been announced. For more details,
please visit -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2016_WMF_Wikimania_Scholarships


2. Katherine Maher (https://goo.gl/QwRJTa) takes over as the Intermin
Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation effective 14 March 2016
(after Lila Tretikov resigned in Feb 2016). Full announcement can be found
at https://goo.gl/42NfC8 and https://goo.gl/uFhAzk


3. The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is
accepting proposals from March 14th to April 12th for new ideas to improve
Wikimedia projects (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG). Funds are
available (up to $30,000 USD) to support individuals or teams of up to four
people to implement promising ideas, whether focused on building a new tool
or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, researching an
important issue, or providing other support for community-building.  Ideas
from the current Inspire Campaign on content curation and review are very
welcome. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire)




*IN THE MEDIA*



1. Ashutosh Desai & Savio DSouza (13 March 2016). "13 ways to make your
Wikipedia experience better".The Times of India.


2. Prahari (30 March 2016). "Wikipedia – Is 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - February 2016 Monthly Report

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Thanks for the report Priyanka.

Can the EC reply to my previous mails.

Regards
-Sudhanwa


On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Priyanka Tiwari 
wrote:

> Greetings from Wikimedia India!
>
> Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of February 2016.
> Looking forward for your valuable feedback.
>
>
> *News and Events*
>
> 1)  Recognition of Maithili Wikimedians User Group (
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Maithili_User_Group/)
>
> Quick Introduction -
>
> *Maithili* is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal and northern India by
> 34.7 million people as of 2000, of which 2.8 million were resident in
> Nepal. It is written in the Devanagari script. It is recognized as one of
> the largest languages in India and is the second most widely used language
> in Nepal.
>
> Maithili Wikimedians User Group is a group of Wikimedians who work on
> various wiki projects related to Maithili language. Their mission is to
> support Maithili Wikimedians in their Wikimedia-related endeavors and to
> partner with local organizations in their use of Wikimedia projects. For
> more details, please visit -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maithili_Wikimedians_User_Group
>
>
> 2)  Meeting between Yohann Thomas (WMIN) & Gaurav Jhammat in
> Chandigarh on planning of WCI 2016 (7th February 2016)
>
> Here are the key discussion points summarized -
>
> a.   Creation of new email for Organizers of WCI-
> wikiconferencein...@wikimedia.in
>
> b.  Discussions on possibility of hiring event manager to ease work load
> on Organizers.
>
> c.   Discussions on Schedule of the event & possible timeline to the
> event.
>
> d.  Team creation & management of the event.
>
> e.   The meeting ended on a positive note with WMIN promising to support
> the event wholeheartedly till the end.
>
>
>
> 3) IRC for planning of WCI 2016 to be held in Chandigarh (25th and 27th
> February 2016)
>
> Venue currently decided is CGC, Landran (Mohali). For more details, please
> visit -
>
> http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikiconferenceindia/
>
>
> 4)   Wikimedia India Executive Member Noopur Raval resigned with the
> following reason provided -
>
> *I have been caught up in other professional duties and the time
> difference makes it impossible for me to stay up*
>
>
> 5)  Wikimedia Foundation Stewards elections concluded on 28 February with
> two users getting elected – Masti
>  and NahidSultan
> .
>
>
> 6)  Team Roles for WikiConference India 2016 opens up. Please sign up
> here (https://goo.gl/6zxGTe)
>
>
> 7)  WMIN interns Rudra Pratap Sinha and Srikar Kashyap take charge
> effective 1 February.
>
>
> *In the Media... *
>
> 1."Wikipedia starts working on Google-like search engine project worth
> $2.5 million"
> .
> *IBN Live*. 15 February 2016.
>
> 2.*Rob Price *(26 February 2016). "The executive director of the
> organisation behind Wikipedia just resigned"
> .
> *Business Insider India*
>
> 3.*Anshuman U Shastry* (17 February 2016). "7 Lakh Users Keep Kannada
> Wiki Going"
> .
> *The* *New Indian Expressz*
>
> 4.TOI Tech (9 February 2016). "IAMAI suggests ways to spread internet
> across India"
> .
> *The Times of India*
>
> 5."India blocks Zuckerberg's free net app"
> .* BBC*. 8 February 2016
>
> 6.*Madhav Gadgil *(6 February 2016). "Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia
> to hold the government to account?"
> *.
> Scroll*
>
>
>
> This report is also available at:
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Feb_2016
>
>
> Regards,
> Priyanka Tiwari
>
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - February 2016 Monthly Report

[Priyanka Tiwari]

Greetings from Wikimedia India!

Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of February 2016.
Looking forward for your valuable feedback.


*News and Events*

1)  Recognition of Maithili Wikimedians User Group (
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Maithili_User_Group/)

Quick Introduction -

*Maithili* is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Nepal and northern India by
34.7 million people as of 2000, of which 2.8 million were resident in
Nepal. It is written in the Devanagari script. It is recognized as one of
the largest languages in India and is the second most widely used language
in Nepal.

Maithili Wikimedians User Group is a group of Wikimedians who work on
various wiki projects related to Maithili language. Their mission is to
support Maithili Wikimedians in their Wikimedia-related endeavors and to
partner with local organizations in their use of Wikimedia projects. For
more details, please visit -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maithili_Wikimedians_User_Group


2)  Meeting between Yohann Thomas (WMIN) & Gaurav Jhammat in Chandigarh on
planning of WCI 2016 (7th February 2016)

Here are the key discussion points summarized -

a.   Creation of new email for Organizers of WCI-
wikiconferencein...@wikimedia.in

b.  Discussions on possibility of hiring event manager to ease work load on
Organizers.

c.   Discussions on Schedule of the event & possible timeline to the event.

d.  Team creation & management of the event.

e.   The meeting ended on a positive note with WMIN promising to support
the event wholeheartedly till the end.



3) IRC for planning of WCI 2016 to be held in Chandigarh (25th and 27th
February 2016)

Venue currently decided is CGC, Landran (Mohali). For more details, please
visit -

http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikiconferenceindia/


4)   Wikimedia India Executive Member Noopur Raval resigned with the
following reason provided -

*I have been caught up in other professional duties and the time difference
makes it impossible for me to stay up*


5)  Wikimedia Foundation Stewards elections concluded on 28 February with
two users getting elected – Masti
 and NahidSultan
.


6)  Team Roles for WikiConference India 2016 opens up. Please sign up here (
https://goo.gl/6zxGTe)


7)  WMIN interns Rudra Pratap Sinha and Srikar Kashyap take charge
effective 1 February.


*In the Media... *

1."Wikipedia starts working on Google-like search engine project worth $2.5
million"
.
*IBN Live*. 15 February 2016.

2.*Rob Price *(26 February 2016). "The executive director of the
organisation behind Wikipedia just resigned"
.
*Business Insider India*

3.*Anshuman U Shastry* (17 February 2016). "7 Lakh Users Keep Kannada Wiki
Going"
.
*The* *New Indian Expressz*

4.TOI Tech (9 February 2016). "IAMAI suggests ways to spread internet
across India"
.
*The Times of India*

5."India blocks Zuckerberg's free net app"
.* BBC*. 8 February 2016

6.*Madhav Gadgil *(6 February 2016). "Why aren’t Indians using Wikipedia to
hold the government to account?"
*.
Scroll*



This report is also available at:
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Feb_2016


Regards,
Priyanka Tiwari
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - January 2016 Monthly Report

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

You are missing out many more things.

I had replied earlier to Yohan's mail. He has not replied to it.

-Sudhanwa



On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Priyanka  wrote:

> Apologies for missing out a key news.
>
> Our Program Director Mr. Ravishankar Ayyakkannu resigned. We all
> appreciate his endeavours and wish him all the best for his future.
> --
> From: Priyanka Tiwari 
> Sent: ‎16-‎02-‎2016 10:53 PM
> To: Wikimedia India Community list 
> Subject: Wikimedia India Chapter - January 2016 Monthly Report
>
> Greetings from Wikimedia India!
>
> Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of January 2016.
> Looking forward for your valuable feedback.
>
> == EVENTS HELD ==
>
> EVENT – Wikipedia’s 15th Anniversary celebration in Hyderabad (
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/15th_Wikipedia_Anniversary_Celebration_Hyderabad
> )
> SYNOPSIS –
> Agenda of the event included the following keynote activities:
> - 'Introduction to Wikipedia, How to utilize & How to contribute' – by
> Wikipedia contributors.
> - Panel discussions on Wikipedia and the Wiki communities led by Wikipedia
> contributors and academicians.
>
> EVENT – Workshop organized by Osmania University (OU) on 11th January 2016
> at NERTU Conference Hall (
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Librarians_Workshop)
> SYNOPSIS –
> Agenda of the event included the following activities:
> - Fifteen Library and Information Science Professionals were identified to
> participate who are serious researchers and proactive users of latest tools
> and technologies and are invited as resource persons as they are experts in
> their field.
> - Uploading Images/Photos, Copyright issues, Creative Commons were also
> discussed. Three Telugu Wikipedians also attended the event and lent their
> expertise to the event. It was a learning event as all the participants did
> a collaborative effort "List of LIS Journals in India" available at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LIS_Journals_in_India.
>
> EVENT – Wikipedia Takes Kolkata (on January 24) (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata_V)
> SYNOPSIS –
> Wikipedia Takes Kolkata is a planned photo scavenger hunt in the spirit of
> Wikipedia Takes the City held in Kolkata. This event is aimed at increasing
> the coverage of free photographs involving the city of Kolkata so that they
> can be used in Wikipedia articles which need pictures, as well as promoting
> awareness of Wikipedia.
>
> == NEWS ==
>
> - IRC Discussions was held on 10th January 2016 for the bidders of
> WikiConference India to take questions from fellow Wikipedians on the
> organization of the event.
> (IRC Chat at http://goo.gl/5w7OZs ).
> - Hosting city for WikiConference India 2016 is Chandigarh as per IRC
> Discussions by 18 January.
> - Wikimedia India hires two admin interns – User:Jim Carter (Rudra Pratap
> Sinha) and User:Strike Eagle (Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka) to help in the
> functioning of the chapter.
> - Wikimedia India hires one HR Intern - Ms Ashmita Bose in an attempt to
> make the organization more robust and well structured.
>
> == IN THE MEDIA ==
> 1. Wikimedia Foundation distances itself from Free Basics, Hindustan Times
> (http://goo.gl/OIzqo7)
> 2. This multilingual edit-a-thon wants to improve Indian content on
> Wikipedia, DNA (http://goo.gl/uR49Kf)
> 3. Wiki turns 15, free libraries a bonanza, The Times of India (
> http://goo.gl/WVF2U4)
> 4. Wikipedia initiative Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online
> (http://goo.gl/FOAHKl)
> 5. Why It's Essential To Grow IndianLanguage Wikipedias, The Huffington
> Post (http://goo.gl/NviKKX)
> 6. Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts, The Hindu (
> http://goo.gl/xuQdmY)
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Srikar Kashyap for all
> his endeavours.
>
> This report is also available at:
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Jan_2016
>
>
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[Priyanka]

Apologies for missing out a key news.

Our Program Director Mr. Ravishankar Ayyakkannu resigned. We all appreciate his 
endeavours and wish him all the best for his future.

-Original Message-
From: "Priyanka Tiwari" 
Sent: ‎16-‎02-‎2016 10:53 PM
To: "Wikimedia India Community list" 
Subject: Wikimedia India Chapter - January 2016 Monthly Report

Greetings from Wikimedia India!


Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of January 2016. Looking 
forward for your valuable feedback.


== EVENTS HELD ==


EVENT – Wikipedia’s 15th Anniversary celebration in Hyderabad 
(http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/15th_Wikipedia_Anniversary_Celebration_Hyderabad)
SYNOPSIS –
Agenda of the event included the following keynote activities:
- 'Introduction to Wikipedia, How to utilize & How to contribute' – by 
Wikipedia contributors.
- Panel discussions on Wikipedia and the Wiki communities led by Wikipedia 
contributors and academicians.


EVENT – Workshop organized by Osmania University (OU) on 11th January 2016 at 
NERTU Conference Hall (http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Librarians_Workshop)
SYNOPSIS –
Agenda of the event included the following activities:
- Fifteen Library and Information Science Professionals were identified to 
participate who are serious researchers and proactive users of latest tools and 
technologies and are invited as resource persons as they are experts in their 
field.
- Uploading Images/Photos, Copyright issues, Creative Commons were also 
discussed. Three Telugu Wikipedians also attended the event and lent their 
expertise to the event. It was a learning event as all the participants did a 
collaborative effort "List of LIS Journals in India" available at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LIS_Journals_in_India.


EVENT – Wikipedia Takes Kolkata (on January 24) 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata_V)
SYNOPSIS –
Wikipedia Takes Kolkata is a planned photo scavenger hunt in the spirit of 
Wikipedia Takes the City held in Kolkata. This event is aimed at increasing the 
coverage of free photographs involving the city of Kolkata so that they can be 
used in Wikipedia articles which need pictures, as well as promoting awareness 
of Wikipedia.


== NEWS ==


- IRC Discussions was held on 10th January 2016 for the bidders of 
WikiConference India to take questions from fellow Wikipedians on the 
organization of the event. 
(IRC Chat at http://goo.gl/5w7OZs ).
- Hosting city for WikiConference India 2016 is Chandigarh as per IRC 
Discussions by 18 January.
- Wikimedia India hires two admin interns – User:Jim Carter (Rudra Pratap 
Sinha) and User:Strike Eagle (Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka) to help in the 
functioning of the chapter.
- Wikimedia India hires one HR Intern - Ms Ashmita Bose in an attempt to make 
the organization more robust and well structured.


== IN THE MEDIA ==
1. Wikimedia Foundation distances itself from Free Basics, Hindustan Times 
(http://goo.gl/OIzqo7)
2. This multilingual edit-a-thon wants to improve Indian content on Wikipedia, 
DNA (http://goo.gl/uR49Kf)
3. Wiki turns 15, free libraries a bonanza, The Times of India 
(http://goo.gl/WVF2U4)
4. Wikipedia initiative Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online 
(http://goo.gl/FOAHKl)
5. Why It's Essential To Grow IndianLanguage Wikipedias, The Huffington Post 
(http://goo.gl/NviKKX)
6. Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts, The Hindu (http://goo.gl/xuQdmY)


I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Srikar Kashyap for all his 
endeavours.


This report is also available at:
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Jan_2016___
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[Priyanka Tiwari]

Greetings from Wikimedia India!

Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of January 2016.
Looking forward for your valuable feedback.

== EVENTS HELD ==

EVENT – Wikipedia’s 15th Anniversary celebration in Hyderabad (
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/15th_Wikipedia_Anniversary_Celebration_Hyderabad
)
SYNOPSIS –
Agenda of the event included the following keynote activities:
- 'Introduction to Wikipedia, How to utilize & How to contribute' – by
Wikipedia contributors.
- Panel discussions on Wikipedia and the Wiki communities led by Wikipedia
contributors and academicians.

EVENT – Workshop organized by Osmania University (OU) on 11th January 2016
at NERTU Conference Hall (
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Librarians_Workshop)
SYNOPSIS –
Agenda of the event included the following activities:
- Fifteen Library and Information Science Professionals were identified to
participate who are serious researchers and proactive users of latest tools
and technologies and are invited as resource persons as they are experts in
their field.
- Uploading Images/Photos, Copyright issues, Creative Commons were also
discussed. Three Telugu Wikipedians also attended the event and lent their
expertise to the event. It was a learning event as all the participants did
a collaborative effort "List of LIS Journals in India" available at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LIS_Journals_in_India.

EVENT – Wikipedia Takes Kolkata (on January 24) (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata_V)
SYNOPSIS –
Wikipedia Takes Kolkata is a planned photo scavenger hunt in the spirit of
Wikipedia Takes the City held in Kolkata. This event is aimed at increasing
the coverage of free photographs involving the city of Kolkata so that they
can be used in Wikipedia articles which need pictures, as well as promoting
awareness of Wikipedia.

== NEWS ==

- IRC Discussions was held on 10th January 2016 for the bidders of
WikiConference India to take questions from fellow Wikipedians on the
organization of the event.
(IRC Chat at http://goo.gl/5w7OZs ).
- Hosting city for WikiConference India 2016 is Chandigarh as per IRC
Discussions by 18 January.
- Wikimedia India hires two admin interns – User:Jim Carter (Rudra Pratap
Sinha) and User:Strike Eagle (Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka) to help in the
functioning of the chapter.
- Wikimedia India hires one HR Intern - Ms Ashmita Bose in an attempt to
make the organization more robust and well structured.

== IN THE MEDIA ==
1. Wikimedia Foundation distances itself from Free Basics, Hindustan Times (
http://goo.gl/OIzqo7)
2. This multilingual edit-a-thon wants to improve Indian content on
Wikipedia, DNA (http://goo.gl/uR49Kf)
3. Wiki turns 15, free libraries a bonanza, The Times of India (
http://goo.gl/WVF2U4)
4. Wikipedia initiative Celebrating legacy of Bangalore Blue grapes online (
http://goo.gl/FOAHKl)
5. Why It's Essential To Grow IndianLanguage Wikipedias, The Huffington
Post (http://goo.gl/NviKKX)
6. Kannada Wikipedia not on top of the charts, The Hindu (
http://goo.gl/xuQdmY)

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Srikar Kashyap for all
his endeavours.

This report is also available at:
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Jan_2016
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[Ravishankar Ayyakkannu]

Shyamal,

This is an excellent proposal !

May I request you to create a project page for this at

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects ?

Then, we can discuss and develop the details of this idea in Meta (please
suggest if there is another appropriate forum). Once we finalize the
details, we can get it rolling  in the beginning with few Wikimedians for
the pilot phase. Based on the metrics for this, we can iterate and improve.

Ravi
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter welcomes new grant requests and project proposals

[Ravishankar Ayyakkannu]

Hi,

Wikimedia India Chapter welcomes community driven grant requests and
project proposals that are

* Innovative
* Creative
* Pan-Indian
* Scalable
* Reproducible
* Impactful
*
*... *(wait, that is already a long list of keywords :) )*

OK, let us think of something more than the typical outreach work we do !

While the chapter gets ready updating a minimum set of requirements,
policies and procedures for awarding grants, please start discussing in
your community village pump about prospective projects. When we review
grant requests, we will be looking for signs of community approval or
interest.

Stay tuned for more updates and let me assure you will get approval for
grants in a Tatkal basis :)

Ravi,
Program Director, Wikimedia India Chapter.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter welcomes new grant requests and project proposals

[Shyamal L.]

Dear Ravi,

Congratulations on your new role and kudos for opening up for ideas. I
would like not to make a proposal but to throw an idea for further
development. It is something that will be attractive to those with an
interest in scholarly pursuit and I suspect, the kind of people who will be
interested in contributing more to wiki[m|p]media projects.

Build a network of volunteer community librarians. These vcl's will be paid
for subscription/membership to libraries in their city and will work to
highlight sources they have access to and handle community requests for
information using a ticket based-information request system (more or less a
bugzilla). The system can also run small contests on a theme where sources
on a theme are offered and new people are encouraged to add referenced
content to various wp projects. Initially this can be made open to all
seekers of information. Wikipedians are encouraged to stalk requests and
references found and incorporate them, highlighting their edits to newbies.

If this works reasonably, or too well to be handled by once-a-week trips to
local libraries, it could be scaled into something for a nominal payment
that makes it worthwhile for everyone's time and perhaps make chapter
membership meaningful with something that members can get as a
privilege-research aid.

The volunteers need to be interested in research themselves, willing to
reach out to librarians, spreading the word and most importantly enjoy the
work.

I am happy to pitch in and help look up material for any information
requests particularly in the biological sciences. I have access to a few
physical libraries at the moment and can in any case help with JSTOR and
BNA sources (courtesy Wikipedia Library Project). I also offer some
introductions to information literacy, so far I have only done a session
for some students of St Joseph's College and some students of entomology at
the UAS, GKVK. I also keep an eye on WP:RX on the English wikipedia.

I have met some helpful librarians who are interested but wikipedia is not
something convenient enough for them. Reaching out to librarians is also
something that we need to try.

Best wishes
Shyamal
Http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Shyamal

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu 
ravidre...@wikimedia.in wrote:
 Hi,

 Wikimedia India Chapter welcomes community driven grant requests and
project proposals that are

 * Innovative
 * Creative
 * Pan-Indian
 * Scalable
 * Reproducible
 * Impactful
 *
 *... (wait, that is already a long list of keywords :) )

 OK, let us think of something more than the typical outreach work we do !

 While the chapter gets ready updating a minimum set of requirements,
policies and procedures for awarding grants, please start discussing in
your community village pump about prospective projects. When we review
grant requests, we will be looking for signs of community approval or
interest.

 Stay tuned for more updates and let me assure you will get approval for
grants in a Tatkal basis :)

 Ravi,
 Program Director, Wikimedia India Chapter.



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter welcomes new grant requests and project proposals

[Abhishek Suryawanshi]

Nice initiative. Hope so 'tatkal' system works in smooth way ;)
*Simple Pictorial Guide *might help new members.

All the best.




Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi



On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu 
ravidre...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Hi,

 Wikimedia India Chapter welcomes community driven grant requests and
 project proposals that are

 * Innovative
 * Creative
 * Pan-Indian
 * Scalable
 * Reproducible
 * Impactful
 *
 *... *(wait, that is already a long list of keywords :) )*

 OK, let us think of something more than the typical outreach work we do !

 While the chapter gets ready updating a minimum set of requirements,
 policies and procedures for awarding grants, please start discussing in
 your community village pump about prospective projects. When we review
 grant requests, we will be looking for signs of community approval or
 interest.

 Stay tuned for more updates and let me assure you will get approval for
 grants in a Tatkal basis :)

 Ravi,
 Program Director, Wikimedia India Chapter.



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs

[Belayet Hossain]

Congratulations Jayanta Da.

Belayet
On Sep 1, 2014 11:16 PM, Jayanta Nath jaya...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in
 the list,

 Dear members,

 The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency
 teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient
 items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon:

 1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former
 Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The
 resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another
 senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second
 nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations.

 Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be
 part of the EC.

 2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was
 unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
 Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as
 the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively.

 3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC
 agreed together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the
 upcoming general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major
 decision like this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired
 candidate(s)for a longer term.

 4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted
 tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters
 pending for decisions.

 This is for the general information for all chapter members and other
 interested stakeholders.

 Thank You,

 Jayanta Nath

 President

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs

[Jayanta Nath]

Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in
the list,

Dear members,

The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency
teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient
items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon:

1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former
Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The
resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another
senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second
nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations.

Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be
part of the EC.

2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was
unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as
the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively.

3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC agreed
together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the upcoming
general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major decision like
this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired candidate(s)for
a longer term.

4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted
tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters
pending for decisions.

This is for the general information for all chapter members and other
interested stakeholders.

Thank You,

Jayanta Nath

President

Wikimedia India Chapter
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs

[Asaf Bartov]

Thanks for this update!  Let me know if there's any way I can help.

   A.
On Sep 1, 2014 2:16 PM, Jayanta Nath jaya...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in
 the list,

 Dear members,

 The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency
 teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient
 items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon:

 1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former
 Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The
 resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another
 senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second
 nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations.

 Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be
 part of the EC.

 2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was
 unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
 Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as
 the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively.

 3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC
 agreed together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the
 upcoming general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major
 decision like this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired
 candidate(s)for a longer term.

 4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted
 tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters
 pending for decisions.

 This is for the general information for all chapter members and other
 interested stakeholders.

 Thank You,

 Jayanta Nath

 President

 Wikimedia India Chapter


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs

[Viswanathan Prabhakaran]

Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in
the list,

As another EC member, let me assure you all that most of the remaining EC
members are actively contemplating and working towards reaching the
earliest solutions to remove any deadlocks, in a fast track mode.

The resolution on whether to accept or reject the resignations by Moksh
Juneja and Pranav Curumsey have been PASSED AS ACCEPTED by  3 against 1
votes with one member abstaining from any actions.

Now that the present EC has TWO vacancies to be filled, we are in the
process of co-opting two senior chapter members, ideally with a consensus,
or if necessary, again through voting.  A resolution to this effect is
already placed in the internal board wiki. Being the case of an emergency,
the resolution will be set for voting till tomorrow mid-night.

We earnestly expect that we will be able to fulfill all the seven positions
by this. We will also elect a new president (and if necessary other office
bearers) from among us.

Any pending issues / actions regarding elections and other affairs will be
discussed and decided by consensus (or a majority),  soon after restoring
the EC to its full strength.

Any decisions on hiring and other critical matters are already suspended.
It may also stay suspended further (until a freshly elected  EC come into
power) unless found absolutely necessary.

The new structure will be effective until upcoming general elections. On
successful completion of the elections, a fresh EC will take over the reins.


This is for your general information.

Thank you

On behalf of the Executive Committee,

Viswanathan Prabhakaran
Member, Executive Committee,
Wikimedia India Chapter.
Thrissur, Kerala
Wikimedia /Wikimedia India User: ViswaPrabha
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter affairs

[Jayanta Nath]

As you may be aware, two members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia
Chapter India have submitted their resignations with immediate effect.
However, there has been not any internal action or response or a call
notice for an urgent Teleconference for further discussion on possible
actions from the remaining office bearers namely the Secretary and
Treasurer.

Wikimedia India Chapter is going through a critical phase with several
important and crucial decisions and deadlines pending. The surprising
resignations from two board members at this juncture has made this a
complex affair. We have very important timelines and deadlines to be
complied with, in the coming few days.

Due to the above critical situation, a resolution has been put forth within
the official Internal Wiki (board members' wiki) on whether to accept or
reject the resignations.

One of us from the EC will be informing you of the decision output of this
resolution duly.

This is for your general information.

Regards,
Jayanta Nath
EC Member
Wikimedia India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter to bid to host Wikimedia Conference 2014

[Karthik Nadar]

Hi,

Thank you very much for the prompt feedback. Anivar, thank you for alerting
it to us. We will surely take care to find if everything is legal.

Sankarshan, we need to do that when we apply for the grant. That is post
(if) we win the bid!


Regards,
Karthik Nadar.
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in

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On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:23 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in
 wrote:
  When we prepared the bid we looked at options in Bangalore, Chennai,
 Cochin,
  Dharamsala, Goa, Mumbai, Srinagar/Gulmarg and Varanasi. Of these Goa was
  found to be the best bet and we have prepared a bid available for viewing
  at:
 
 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia_India_Chapter:Wikimedia_Conference_2014

 You will probably require a section similar to
 
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IT/Wikimedia_Conference_2013#What_will_be_accomplished_if_the_project_is_successful.3F
 


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter to bid to host Wikimedia Conference 2014

[Karthik Nadar]

Hi all,


This is to inform you that WMIN has decided to mount a bid for Wikimedia
Conference 2014 (aka Chapters Conference).

Our reasoning to bid is based on the fact that its been two years since we
hosted WCI, a much bigger conference in size as compared to this. There is
no perfect time when we can bid, we will need to make decisive decisions
should we aspire to grow. We are yet to hold an international conference of
any size. WMConf is a closed door conference and we expect to host about
100-150 persons for this. This would be an ideal setting to test ourselves
before a Wikimania bid, say in 2-3 years time.

When we prepared the bid we looked at options in Bangalore, Chennai,
Cochin, Dharamsala, Goa, Mumbai, Srinagar/Gulmarg and Varanasi. Of these
Goa was found to be the best bet and we have prepared a bid available for
viewing at:
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia_India_Chapter:Wikimedia_Conference_2014

Link to 2013 event budget for comparison:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IT/Wikimedia_Conference_2013


Regards,
Karthik Nadar.
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter to bid to host Wikimedia Conference 2014

[Anivar Aravind]

Goa is a good option.
But just sharing a point of concern. It is extremely important to be
careful in selecting Hotels in Goa for International Conferences .There are
many Hotels violating many coastal regulation zones and environmental laws
.
2 years back Tehelka Think Fest  faced a similar trouble .
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/202792/controversy-clouds-tehelka-thinkfest.html

~ regards
Anivar
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter to bid to host Wikimedia Conference 2014

[sankarshan]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote:
 When we prepared the bid we looked at options in Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin,
 Dharamsala, Goa, Mumbai, Srinagar/Gulmarg and Varanasi. Of these Goa was
 found to be the best bet and we have prepared a bid available for viewing
 at:
 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia_India_Chapter:Wikimedia_Conference_2014

You will probably require a section similar to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IT/Wikimedia_Conference_2013#What_will_be_accomplished_if_the_project_is_successful.3F


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

[Ashwin Baindur]

There is a very serious amount of money being spent on bureaucratic
necessities  indeed very little on community activities.

For example, why do 6 people need to go for Wikimania  Chapters conference?

You have asked for money for 3 regional  1 national conference. Does
anyone actually believe that the Chapter has the wherewithal to
organise/conduct 4 conferences in a year? Add to that x number of academies
 one devcamp. Plus a whopping Rs 6 lakhs for Wiki Loves India/Monuments.

There are also a huge grey areas - Event Participation, Unspecified general
events.

The amt 150,000 $ is not at all small. This is an extravagant budget and
needs pruning down in the issues mentioned above  more allocation to
activities  communities. My suggestion is to keep it much smaller but
doable. Such huge amts demanded without any clear cut idea of whats to
happen will only lead to non-utilisation at best  misuse at worst. Dont
bite off more than you can chew!




On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:

 Karthik,

 Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and
 Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other
 budget item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of
 language communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when
 distributed for all the language communities.

 I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the full
 $200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a good
 budget for language communities and special interest groups.

 Please also see my feedback at


 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget#Funding_allocation_for_language_communities_and_SIGs

 Thanks,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

[Abhijith Jayanthi]

Hi All, 

I sense the budget is little beyond the line. I understand the tentative events 
planned will mean an aggressive growth plan, but do we have the resources to 
handle it? 
More so, can someone explain the status of our FCRA and how exactly is the fund 
routed into our account? An amount of this magnitude will need a reflection of 
our previous spend/ failing which we will attract unnecessary scrutiny. This 
will mean we will need to have full-time support staff - additional expense. 
For Wikimania, I support and wish to see a transparent call for interests and a 
due process for selection of travel/scholarship awards: more Indian 
representation at Wikimania is worthy and called for. For a national 
conference/4 regional conferences - I understand it will be an overstretch, it 
is best to have a single conference, through rotation in different cities every 
year to ensure good participation in the long run. Most of the attendees are 
volunteers, 5 conferences in total is a bit heavy on schedule. 

- Abhijith Jayanthi
 




 From: Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org 
Cc: Wikimedia Members List wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com 
Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2013 1:00 PM
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Request
 


There is a very serious amount of money being spent on bureaucratic necessities 
 indeed very little on community activities.

For example, why do 6 people need to go for Wikimania  Chapters conference?

You have asked for money for 3 regional  1 national conference. Does anyone 
actually believe that the Chapter has the wherewithal to organise/conduct 4 
conferences in a year? Add to that x number of academies  one devcamp. Plus a 
whopping Rs 6 lakhs for Wiki Loves India/Monuments.

There are also a huge grey areas - Event Participation, Unspecified general 
events.

The amt 150,000 $ is not at all small. This is an extravagant budget and needs 
pruning down in the issues mentioned above  more allocation to activities  
communities. My suggestion is to keep it much smaller but doable. Such huge 
amts demanded without any clear cut idea of whats to happen will only lead to 
non-utilisation at best  misuse at worst. Dont bite off more than you can chew!





On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:

Karthik, 

Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and 
Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other budget 
item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of language 
communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when distributed 
for all the language communities. 

I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the full 
$200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a good budget 
for language communities and special interest groups.


Please also see my feedback at 

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget#Funding_allocation_for_language_communities_and_SIGs


Thanks, 

Ravi

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

[Pranav Curumsey]

I am responding here this once, from now ahead please post your comments on
the chapter wiki so we dont spam peoples inboxes.

Abhijith, I think I answer most of your points here. The one about FCRA, we
have prior permission upto $100k. Next Jan we complete 3 years and we can
apply for a prior permission waiver. This has been taken into
consideration.


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:

 There is a very serious amount of money being spent on bureaucratic
 necessities  indeed very little on community activities.


About 70% of the annual plan roughly is programmatic activities. This is in
line with good NGO standards where admin activities are kept under 1/3rd of
the cost.


 For example, why do 6 people need to go for Wikimania  Chapters
 conference?


Earlier years 2 board members have been attending chapcon which WMF funded.
We are adding the chief employee as this is an excellent opportunity to
interact with the larger movement, learn from others and collaborate. I
think almost all chapters having employees do this. Same with Wikimania. We
need to remember we are a global movement and this interaction is extremely
important. Even A2K sent 2 employees to Wikimania last month. Its only
because we cannot ask for any separate program funding that its now
included here.


 You have asked for money for 3 regional  1 national conference. Does
 anyone actually believe that the Chapter has the wherewithal to
 organise/conduct 4 conferences in a year? Add to that x number of academies
  one devcamp. Plus a whopping Rs 6 lakhs for Wiki Loves India/Monuments.


This year there have been two conferences - Telugu and Tamil.  We planned
for 3 keeping in mind next year Bangla Wikipedia completes 10 years, the
Gender Gap SIG put up some request and Im sure atleast one other community
will have a regional event - that makes 3. Next year will be 3 years since
the last national event, we feel it is time for another national event,
maybe not as large as the last one but large enough to be a catalyst for
the movements next step forward in India. 12 academies which cost money
(apart from those to which there is no cost) - we did 15 academies last
year, you still think its too much? Devcamp - our commitment to do a tech
related event, some members have been requesting this. We will have 3
employees who will support all this.

There are also a huge grey areas - Event Participation, Unspecified general
 events.


Event participation is for external events, more of networking and building
chapter profile, making people aware we are around. Last year we
participated in a FICCI event as well as The Fifth Elephant. I'm sure your
well aware we cannot plan for everything so we need a general budget for
events which spring up in different parts of our diverse country.


 The amt 150,000 $ is not at all small. This is an extravagant budget and
 needs pruning down in the issues mentioned above  more allocation to
 activities  communities. My suggestion is to keep it much smaller but
 doable. Such huge amts demanded without any clear cut idea of whats to
 happen will only lead to non-utilisation at best  misuse at worst. Dont
 bite off more than you can chew!


I respectfully disagree. Unlike most other chapters, WMIN caters to 40+
language communities, including incubators. Have a look at suggestions from
various communities, people are raring to go. We will do all we can to
support them. We have carefully considered the figure so as to make sure we
are not growing too fast. In the last two years we have received WMF grants
of aprox $80,000 in total apart from local funding. No doubt this is a big
leap, however we need to take this big leap in order to set up our own
office, become more professional and  live up to community expectations.
The office is not being added just for adding admin expenses but so that
the community benefits by its support.





 On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.comwrote:

 Karthik,

 Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and
 Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other
 budget item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of
 language communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when
 distributed for all the language communities.

 I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the
 full $200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a
 good budget for language communities and special interest groups.

 Please also see my feedback at


 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget#Funding_allocation_for_language_communities_and_SIGs

 Thanks,

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

[Karthik Nadar]

Dear Members and Community,

In the last few days many of you have given your valuable feedback and
suggestions on our FDC proposal. We sincerely thank everyone for their
input.

We have tried to build a balanced proposal keeping everyones requirements
in mind. This has been a particularly tough job as the initial ideal budget
calculating all requests went over INR 2 crore. We have had to sadly cut
down on a lot of items to make it a more viable proposal. Though our
initial letter of intent was for $200,000, our goal was to submit a request
for around $100,000 so as to grow at a sustainable pace. However this has
been an extremely difficult task and in the end we decided to keep the
proposal to just under $150,000. We feel that we have included the needs of
the movement in India to a fair extent and at a sustainable level. We would
have loved to include a lot more, however we have had to restrict ourselves
with a heavy heart.

Kindly go through the link below and give your comments on the talk page
(Please DO NOT edit the budget itself).

Link: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget


Regards,
Karthik Nadar.
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: FDC Proposal Review Request

[Ravishankar]

Karthik,

Except for allocation for Innovative projects, GLAM acdtivities and
Digitisation (Budget items 3.5.1, 3.5.4, 3.5.5), I don't see any other
budget item that directly sustains any measurable impact on the growth of
language communities. Even this fund allocation will prove miniscule when
distributed for all the language communities.

I strongly recommend to extend the budget proposal to make use of the full
$200,000 that you proposed in your letter of intent and allocate a good
budget for language communities and special interest groups.

Please also see my feedback at

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:FDC_Proposal_2013/Budget#Funding_allocation_for_language_communities_and_SIGs

Thanks,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

[sankarshan]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote:
 The new EC incharge, so far had no communication with the community, and
 hence this will be the first meet. Program plan for the year 2013-14 will be
 the primary agenda, and so, your plans and suggestions are welcome.

I am not sure whether the logs from the meeting will be posted (that
wasn't discussed in the meeting itself). However, for meetings that
are organized later on, would the team consider using something like
MeetBot (http://meetbot.debian.net/Manual.html) to keep logs and
post them ? IRC is very non-inclusive - either you are online and
participating or, you aren't. Posting the logs to a list/page provides
an opportunity to participate for those who couldn't make it.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

It is here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/February_11,_2013#Logs

Kathik has posted it last night ;)

On 12-Feb-2013, at 9:10 AM, sankarshan wrote:

 On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote:
 The new EC incharge, so far had no communication with the community, and
 hence this will be the first meet. Program plan for the year 2013-14 will be
 the primary agenda, and so, your plans and suggestions are welcome.
 
 I am not sure whether the logs from the meeting will be posted (that
 wasn't discussed in the meeting itself). However, for meetings that
 are organized later on, would the team consider using something like
 MeetBot (http://meetbot.debian.net/Manual.html) to keep logs and
 post them ? IRC is very non-inclusive - either you are online and
 participating or, you aren't. Posting the logs to a list/page provides
 an opportunity to participate for those who couldn't make it.
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

It is here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/February_11,_2013#Logs

Kathik has posted in last night ;
On 12-Feb-2013, at 9:10 AM, sankarshan wrote:

 On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote:
 The new EC incharge, so far had no communication with the community, and
 hence this will be the first meet. Program plan for the year 2013-14 will be
 the primary agenda, and so, your plans and suggestions are welcome.
 
 I am not sure whether the logs from the meeting will be posted (that
 wasn't discussed in the meeting itself). However, for meetings that
 are organized later on, would the team consider using something like
 MeetBot (http://meetbot.debian.net/Manual.html) to keep logs and
 post them ? IRC is very non-inclusive - either you are online and
 participating or, you aren't. Posting the logs to a list/page provides
 an opportunity to participate for those who couldn't make it.
 
 -- 
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 https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

[Srikanth Ramakrishnan]

Don't worry sankarshan, the logs for any EC led Community IRC will be
on the Chapter Wiki. It'll be put up either by Karthik, or me. Thank
you for your suggestion, I will definitely look into it.

On 2/12/13, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in
 wrote:
 The new EC incharge, so far had no communication with the community, and
 hence this will be the first meet. Program plan for the year 2013-14 will
 be
 the primary agenda, and so, your plans and suggestions are welcome.

 I am not sure whether the logs from the meeting will be posted (that
 wasn't discussed in the meeting itself). However, for meetings that
 are organized later on, would the team consider using something like
 MeetBot (http://meetbot.debian.net/Manual.html) to keep logs and
 post them ? IRC is very non-inclusive - either you are online and
 participating or, you aren't. Posting the logs to a list/page provides
 an opportunity to participate for those who couldn't make it.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

[sankarshan]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi
subhash...@cis-india.org wrote:
 It is here:
 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/February_11,_2013#Logs

Thank you. As you'll note, these are the raw logs (probably off an IRC
client). MeetBot uses a syntax that allows you to take notes, assign
actions and so forth.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2013-02-11/fedora_docs_https:fedoraproject.orgwikidocs_project_meetings.2013-02-11-14.22.html
is a random example of how it appears.

 Kathik has posted it last night ;)




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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

[RadhaKrishna Arvapally]

True. It is high time to do that.
I have been trying to find a good replacement for last 2-3 months.

Finally I found one of my colleague who is very excited to pursue. He is
actively supporting me for the Feb event.
After the Feb Event, I will be proposing his name and I will be withdrawing.
we can select best among proposals.


Best Regards,
RadhaKrishna



On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:20 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi
 subhash...@cis-india.org wrote:
  It is here:
  http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/February_11,_2013#Logs

 Thank you. As you'll note, these are the raw logs (probably off an IRC
 client). MeetBot uses a syntax that allows you to take notes, assign
 actions and so forth.
 
 http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2013-02-11/fedora_docs_https:fedoraproject.orgwikidocs_project_meetings.2013-02-11-14.22.html
 
 is a random example of how it appears.

  Kathik has posted it last night ;)




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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

[Karthik Nadar]

Dear friends,

we, from the Wikimedia India Chapter invite you to take part in the IRC
meet. The IRC meet is scheduled on 11 February 2013 (Monday) from 9:00 pm
to 10:00 pm.


   - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/February_11,_2013


The new EC incharge, so far had no communication with the community, and
hence this will be the first meet. Program plan for the year 2013-14 will
be the primary agenda, and so, your plans and suggestions are welcome. Hope
to see you all.




Thanks and regards,
Karthik Nadar,
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter receives FCRA Prior Permission

[Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India)]

To clarity a little further :

Each FCRA Prior permission application is for receiving a specific 
amount, for a specific purpose and from a specific donor.
This is not a blanket permission for all donations/grants for anyone ( 
foreign entities).


More Info : http://mha.nic.in/fcra.htm

The next step is for full FCRA registration, which will facilitate the 
better receipt of foreign contributions.. However, such permissions are 
only granted to organizations with a proven track record of function in 
their chosen field of work for a_period of /three years/. _Well, That is 
a long way to go !


But till then, Individuals and Organizations in India can help the 
chapter to grow forward  :)

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donate

Regards
Tinu Cherian
Wikimedia India.


On 2/20/2012 4:39 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com  wrote:

Good news.
I guess this means the Chapter can receive funding from the Foundation and
other foreign bodies?

No, just the Foundation and a specific amount for now.




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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter receives FCRA Prior Permission

[Anirudh Bhati]

Hi all,

We are very happy to announce that the Ministry of Home Affairs has
granted us prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
(Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA) to receive funds from the Wikimedia
Foundation, USA for Chapter programs.

Through this development, we pass the first hurdle of acquiring
limited funds from the foundation for running programs and enabling
volunteers across the country.

The application was made to the Government on 4 September 2011 and was
granted on 13 February 2012.

This would not have been possible without the persistent efforts of
Arjuna Rao Chavala, the President of Wikimedia India. He worked
tirelessly over months properly following up with the government and
did not leave any stone unturned to ensure that we received the
permissions in time.

On this occasion, we would also like to thank our consultant M
Narsimha Rao, Gautam John, Asaf Bartov and Barry Newstead, for their
help and guidance throughout.

We are working out the modalities of actual implementation of getting
funds into Chapter Bank account and will keep you updated.

On behalf of the Wikimedia India,

Anirudh Bhati
Treasurer, Wikimedia India

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report

[Naveen Francis]

Dear all,

Greetings from Wikimedia India !!!

We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the
year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition
from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far
wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and
participation.
 *Organisational Updates*

*Formation of Task Forces:*

As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and
participation of the members of the chapter actively in various
initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for
coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two
types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The
Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The
Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task
Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group
consists of Administration, Fund raising,  Communications. The Projects
task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The
new task forces will be led by the following people:

   - Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising.
   - Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects.
   - Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration.
   - Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest Groups.
   - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR  Media Relations.

*Membership:*
The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011.

*Donations:*
Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700
Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350

*FCRA:*
Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
(Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official
from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President.

*Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):*
From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat
sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter
City  Language Special Interest Groups. [2]

*Board Meetings:*
The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the
month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India
chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec
2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen
Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and
Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared
earlier [3].
Community City and Language Special Interest Groups

City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the
diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the
wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning
and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement.
The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the
Chapter.

The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next
batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given
below:


*City*

   - Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in)

*Languages*

   - English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia [dot]
   in)
   - Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
   - Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)

The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows:

*City Special Interest Groups*
  City  Members  Bangalore  10  Delhi  2  Mumbai  3  Pune  6  Kolkata  2

*Language Special Interest Groups*
  Language  Volunteers  Bengali  1  English  15  Hindi  1  Kannada  3  Marathi
 4  Malayalam  8  Nepali  1  Odia  3  Sanskrit  2  Telugu  3  Events

A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as
follows.

   - *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first
   Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the
   Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair 
   Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it
   is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively
   encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia,
   how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of
   Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience
   through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing
   articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by using
   the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report

[Ramesh N G]

Wonderful report.
Thanks for sharing Naveen


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote:

 Dear all,

 Greetings from Wikimedia India !!!

 We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the
 year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition
 from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far
 wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and
 participation.
  *Organisational Updates*

 *Formation of Task Forces:*

 As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and
 participation of the members of the chapter actively in various
 initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for
 coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two
 types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The
 Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The
 Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task
 Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group
 consists of Administration, Fund raising,  Communications. The Projects
 task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The
 new task forces will be led by the following people:

- Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising.
- Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects.
- Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration.
- Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest
Groups.
- Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR  Media Relations.

 *Membership:*
 The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011.

 *Donations:*
 Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700
 Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350

 *FCRA:*
 Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
 (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official
 from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President.

 *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):*
 From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat
 sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter
 City  Language Special Interest Groups. [2]

 *Board Meetings:*
 The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the
 month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India
 chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec
 2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen
 Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and
 Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared
 earlier [3].
 Community City and Language Special Interest Groups

 City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the
 diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the
 wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning
 and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement.
 The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the
 Chapter.

 The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next
 batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given
 below:


 *City*

- Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in)

 *Languages*

- English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia
[dot] in)
- Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in)
- Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot]
in)

 The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows:

 *City Special Interest Groups*
   City  Members  Bangalore  10  Delhi  2  Mumbai  3  Pune  6  Kolkata  2

 *Language Special Interest Groups*
   Language  Volunteers  Bengali  1  English  15  Hindi  1  Kannada  3  Marathi
  4  Malayalam  8  Nepali  1  Odia  3  Sanskrit  2  Telugu  3  Events

 A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as
 follows.

- *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first
Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the
Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair 
Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it
is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively
encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia,
how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of
Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took 

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter November report 2011.

[Naveen Francis]

Dear Wikimedia community,

The highlights of the month of November for the Wikimedia Chapter (India)
are provided below:
 Administrative matters Membership

The Chapter membership stands at 185 as of 30 November 2011. This is nearly
double the number of members we had two months ago. The Chapter saw an
increase of 72 members who applied for spot membership at WikiConference
2011 organized last month in Mumbai.
 Donations

Dr Amit Keshri became the first person to donate to our Chapter. We express
our sincere thanks to Dr Keshri and others for their generous contributions
towards the young chapter.
Total donations received in Nov 2011 - INR 3601.
Average donations in Nov 2011 - INR 900.25.
 FCRA

We have applied for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution
(Regulation) Act with the Government of India on 5 November 2011 to be able
to receive funds
[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_IN/Bootstrap_Grantfrom
Wikimedia Foundation. The expected time for processing is 3 to 4
months.

New organizations like ours can receive foreign contributions after seeking
project based prior permission from the Ministry of Home Affairs. We are
seeking permission so as to receive the grant amount allotted to us by the
Wikimedia Foundation in the United States

Another alternative is to apply for FCRA registration, which will
facilitate the receipt of foreign contributions. However, such permissions
are only granted to organizations with a proven track record of function in
their chosen field of work for a period of three years.
 Wiki Conference India 2011

The first Annual India WikiConference 2011 [1] was organized in Mumbai on
18-20 November 2011 at the University of Mumbai. The conference was jointly
hosted by the Wikimedia community in Mumbai and the chapter, along with
scores of volunteers from around the country. This was the first time that
the Indian Wikimedia community has come together to participate at a
national level to organize a conference at this scale.[2] The conference
organizing team was lead by Pranav Curumsey (Chair), Pradeep Mohandas
(Treasurer) and Moksh Juneja (Secretary).[3]

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, inaugurated the conference by
delivering a keynote on Community Building: The Wiki Way in India. He
also said that this event was probably one of the largest Wikimedia events
in the world. Approximately 700 delegates from all over the country
attended the three day national conference. Full and partial scholarships
were given to 98 awardees out of 7070 applicants. MOre than 50
sessions[4]focused on community building, improving quality of
articles, Mediawiki,
establishing partnerships, Wikipedia India Education Program and sharing of
experiences and best practices. Some of the invited speakers included
Professor Krishna Kumar, Anand Kumar and Arnab Goswami. The state of Indic
Wikiprojects track showcased the current state of each Wikimedian community
in India. The conference also received very impressive and enthusiastic
coverage from the national and international media.[5]

As a part of the Chapter track, an overview[6] was presented by President
Arjuna Rao Chavala. The Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition ceremony[7] was
anchored by Arun Ramarathnam, member of the executive committee which
honored several Wikimedians across different Wikiprojects pertinent to
India.[8]

Images and presentations from the conference have been uploaded to the
Wikimedia Commons[9].

Chapter thanks the organizing team for doing a phenomenal job for making
this event successful, and to to all the chapter members and volunteers
spread across the country who contributed so much of their time and effort.
Chapter also thanks Wikimedia Foundation and all other sponsors for their
support and cooperation.
 City and Language SIG

The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the first batch of City and
Language SIG Chairs[10] from its members as given below:

   - Odiya SIG - Subhashish Panigrahi (Odiya user page of
Subhashishhttp://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Psubhashish).

   - Bengali SIG - Jayanta Nathhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth.

   - Sanskrit SIG Swaroop
Raohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MikeLynch.


We look forward to your continued support and active participation in our
activities.

Report is present at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/November_2011_Report

Best,

On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India)

Thanks,
Naveen Francis
Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter
[image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/


Notes:

   - 1) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011
   - 2) http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/02/wikiconference-india/
   - 3)
   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Community_and_Team
   - 4) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Programs
   - 5)
   

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Hi friends,

We will have our IRC meetup on Dec 17, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Dec_17,2011

We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC 
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Thanks Bishakha


On 22 October 2011 12:41, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote:

 That's great, Naveen and chapter board. Am so happy to see this happen.
 This is the first Wikimedia India chapter public IRC, right?

 Will be travelling, but will join in on a future one.

 Good luck and hope it goes well,
 Bishakha

 On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi friends,

 We will have our IRC meetup on Oct 29, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Oct_29,2011

 We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC
 meetup.


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[Naveen Francis]

Hi all,

Gentle reminder on IRC.
It is tonite 9:00 pm

Thanks,
Naveen Francis

On 21 October 2011 18:46, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi friends,

 We will have our IRC meetup on Oct 29, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Oct_29,2011

 We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC
 meetup.


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[Bishakha Datta]

That's great, Naveen and chapter board. Am so happy to see this happen. This
is the first Wikimedia India chapter public IRC, right?

Will be travelling, but will join in on a future one.

Good luck and hope it goes well,
Bishakha

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi friends,

 We will have our IRC meetup on Oct 29, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Oct_29,2011

 We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC
 meetup.


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[Subhashish Panigrahi]

If we could possibly discuss about the monthly Bangalore meetups and adding
more traction to it then it'd be good too.

On 21 October 2011 18:46, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi friends,


 We will have our IRC meetup on Oct 29, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Oct_29,2011

 We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC
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[Naveen Francis]

Hi friends,

We will have our IRC meetup on Oct 29, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Oct_29,2011

We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC
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[Adethya Sudarsanan]

Hi fellow wiki'ers,

Can you please how to nominate myself for the posts..

Thanks in advance,
Adethya. S

On 27 August 2011 11:28, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, CherianTinu Abraham 
 tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have also requested the election committee and the current Exec team to
 also publish the electoral roll too on the members wiki . This might help to
 well wishers to appeal to the good candidates to stand for the elections and
 help lead the Wikimedia movement.


 Thanks for sharing your concern.  As of now, there has been some more
 nominations.   The right forums for EC elections discussions are members
 wiki  (http://members.wikimedia.in) and  members mailing list. (
 wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com

 I request all the well wishers who are members to use the same. If any
 member has access issues, the same could be brought to Chapter's notice.

 Cheers
 Arjun


 -TC

 On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:

 Gautam and the organizing committee for the election, it might make sense
 in extending the last date for nomination.

 The window for nomination hasn't been open for long, it might make sense
 in extending it for a while so more Wikimedians can hear about it.

 Regards
 Theo


 On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:40 AM, CherianTinu Abraham 
 tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Please note that the *last date of nominations* for Executive Committee
 Elections 2011 of Wikimedia India chapter is *Aug 29, 2011*

 With less than 3 days to go for the last date of nominations, there were
 just 2 nominations for the 3 vacant posts.

 This is very disappointing and concerning for the future of Wikimedia
 Chapter India.

 I sincerely appeal to the veteran Wikipedians / Wikimedians of India to
 come forward and help grow the chapter.

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian

 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Gautam John 
 gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Dear All:

 We have instituted a monthly call between the India Chapter and the
 Wikimedia Foundation.  Members of the Chapter EC, Hisham and Asaf Bartov
 (who heads up Global South Relationships at the Foundation) will 
 participate
 in this call.  The objective of the call is to share information and 
 improve
 collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia
 projects of relevance to India.  We had the first one on Aug 24, 2011, and
 here's a quick update.

 *Chapter Update*

- 30 persons attended the workshop on Copyright and Open Licensing
conducted on 30th July 2011 in Bangalore, which was well received.

 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Copyright_and_Open_Licensing_SeminarPlan
- Plan to conduct 1st WikiAcademy with the Department of Public
Libraries, Karnataka for their senior Library professionals on 12 Sep 
 2011.
- Membership currently stands at ~80
- Participation from community on some projects but the response is
below expectations. Chapter hopes that the response will improve as 
 more
activities are taken up by Chapter in the near future.
- AGM will be conducted on September 24 2011.  Elections process
 for EC vacancies has been initiated.
- Process for applying for FCRA prior permission has been actioned
with necessary steps being taken with local banks, consultants and the 
 WMF.
The bank account required for FCRA is ready. The draft of letter from 
 WMF
will be finalized in a week by Chapter Accountant and Advisor (another
prerequisite) and then FCRA application will be submitted. 3-4 months 
 are
required for approval by Home Ministry, Government of India.

 *Foundation Update*

- Education Program is doing well from a numbers perspective - with
more than 1000 students involved.  However, there is a great deal of 
 effort
required to continue to support and enable and motivate these students.
Additional Campus Ambassadors are being selected from the participating
institutions.  Hisham requested that everyone reach out and be 
 encouraging
to the Campus Ambassadors, students and teachers.
- 2 new staff members selected; Nitika has joined  Shiju will be
joining by October
- Initial conversations were being sought with leading mobile
companies to explore Wikipedia on mobile
- Independent public trust to be set up hopefully by next week,
followed by FCRA prior permission and other approvals required for tax
exemption, etc.

 *Collaboration on future projects*

 Some requests from colleges to participate in campus ambassador
 like program  were received by the chapter and Hisham. Hisham said that 
 till
 the ongoing program is stable, he will not be able to roll it to other
 cities. He suggested  that colleges can get  started by forming  student
 clubs and Foundation staff are providing necessary information and
 assistance for the same. He also requested Chapter EC to extend their
 support for the same.

 Chapter seeks active involvement 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter - Executive Committee Elections 2011

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan
adethyas...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi fellow wiki'ers,

 Can you please how to nominate myself for the posts..

This is open only for Chapter members.
If you have become  wikimedia chapter member, you would have received the
call for nominations with instructions.  In case you did not get the same,
please contact Chapter at chap...@wikimedia.in with your membership
number/application details.

If you would like to enroll as a member, please check out
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Membership-FAQ

Cheers
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[Adethya Sudarsanan]

Arjun,

Thanks for sharing that information. But where should I find the membership
form ? The link specified in the previous mail shows a pdf containing forms
pertaining to Government of Karnataka

Thanks,
Adethya

On 27 August 2011 12:17, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan 
 adethyas...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi fellow wiki'ers,

 Can you please how to nominate myself for the posts..

 This is open only for Chapter members.
 If you have become  wikimedia chapter member, you would have received the
 call for nominations with instructions.  In case you did not get the same,
 please contact Chapter at chap...@wikimedia.in with your membership
 number/application details.

 If you would like to enroll as a member, please check out
 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Membership-FAQ

 Cheers
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[wheredevelsdare]

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf

Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:05:30 +0530
From: adethyas...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter - Executive Committee 
Elections 2011

Arjun,
Thanks for sharing that information. But where should I find the membership 
form ? The link specified in the previous mail shows a pdf containing forms 
pertaining to Government of Karnataka

Thanks,Adethya

On 27 August 2011 12:17, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:



On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.com 
wrote:


Hi fellow wiki'ers,
Can you please how to nominate myself for the posts..This is open only for 
Chapter members.
If you have become  wikimedia chapter member, you would have received the call 
for nominations with instructions.  In case you did not get the same, please 
contact Chapter at chap...@wikimedia.in with your membership number/application 
details.



If you would like to enroll as a member, please check out 
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Membership-FAQ

Cheers
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[Hari Prasad Nadig]

Agree with Theo on this. The notification was sent just earlier this week.
There should be an extension.

Although I'm with the appeal to long time Wikipedians in requesting them to
nominate themselves, I wouldn't go overboard thinking that the response is
either disappointing or concerning for the future of Wikimedia India
Chapter. There just wasn't enough time given for members and by any means -
sending out just e-mail notifications doesn't suffice. The people
responsible for the elections (is that the nominations committee?) should do
more, like dropping a message on the members' user page on Wikipedia. Many
people may not be checking emails from this mailing list regularly. Also,
the members may have questions -- about the role, about the term they're
signing up for and much more.

Like some emails sent to this list, the members may also need help
nominating themselves. Is there an FAQ for nominations, btw?

Cheers,

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:

 Gautam and the organizing committee for the election, it might make sense
 in extending the last date for nomination.

 The window for nomination hasn't been open for long, it might make sense in
 extending it for a while so more Wikimedians can hear about it.

 Regards
 Theo


 On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:40 AM, CherianTinu Abraham 
 tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Please note that the *last date of nominations* for Executive Committee
 Elections 2011 of Wikimedia India chapter is *Aug 29, 2011*

 With less than 3 days to go for the last date of nominations, there were
 just 2 nominations for the 3 vacant posts.

 This is very disappointing and concerning for the future of Wikimedia
 Chapter India.

 I sincerely appeal to the veteran Wikipedians / Wikimedians of India to
 come forward and help grow the chapter.

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian


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[wheredevelsdare]

I agree with Tinu/Theo/Hari that there is a need for an extension.

Like Tinu, I am also worried of the response so far and it will definitely 
affect the Chapter in the sort to medium term (maybe even hurt its image) if 
the right people are not elected. 


Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:49:51 +0530
From: hpna...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter - Executive Committee 
Elections 2011

Agree with Theo on this. The notification was sent just earlier this week. 
There should be an extension.

Although I'm with the appeal to long time Wikipedians in requesting them to 
nominate themselves, I wouldn't go overboard thinking that the response is 
either disappointing or concerning for the future of Wikimedia India Chapter. 
There just wasn't enough time given for members and by any means - sending out 
just e-mail notifications doesn't suffice. The people responsible for the 
elections (is that the nominations committee?) should do more, like dropping a 
message on the members' user page on Wikipedia. Many people may not be checking 
emails from this mailing list regularly. Also, the members may have questions 
-- about the role, about the term they're signing up for and much more. 



Like some emails sent to this list, the members may also need help nominating 
themselves. Is there an FAQ for nominations, btw?

Cheers,

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:


Gautam and the organizing committee for the election, it might make sense in 
extending the last date for nomination.


The window for nomination hasn't been open for long, it might make sense in 
extending it for a while so more Wikimedians can hear about it.

RegardsTheo

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:40 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com 
wrote:



Please note that the last date of nominations for Executive Committee Elections 
2011 of Wikimedia India chapter is Aug 29, 2011





With less than 3 days to go for the last date of nominations, there were just 2 
nominations for the 3 vacant posts.





This is very disappointing and concerning for the future of Wikimedia Chapter 
India.
 I sincerely appeal to the veteran Wikipedians / Wikimedians of India to come 
forward and help grow the chapter. 





RegardsTinu Cherian

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[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan
adethyas...@gmail.comwrote:

 Arjun,

 Thanks for sharing that information. But where should I find the membership
 form ? The link specified in the previous mail shows a pdf containing forms
 pertaining to Government of Karnataka

 Here is the link
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WikimediaChapterMembershipFormIndividual.pdf

Membership-FAQ is also updated with the links.

Thanks
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[CherianTinu Abraham]

Please note that the *last date of nominations* for Executive Committee
Elections 2011 of Wikimedia India chapter is *Aug 29, 2011*

With less than 3 days to go for the last date of nominations, there were
just 2 nominations for the 3 vacant posts.

This is very disappointing and concerning for the future of Wikimedia
Chapter India.

I sincerely appeal to the veteran Wikipedians / Wikimedians of India to come
forward and help grow the chapter.

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Dear All:

 We have instituted a monthly call between the India Chapter and the
 Wikimedia Foundation.  Members of the Chapter EC, Hisham and Asaf Bartov
 (who heads up Global South Relationships at the Foundation) will participate
 in this call.  The objective of the call is to share information and improve
 collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia
 projects of relevance to India.  We had the first one on Aug 24, 2011, and
 here's a quick update.

 *Chapter Update*

- 30 persons attended the workshop on Copyright and Open Licensing
conducted on 30th July 2011 in Bangalore, which was well received.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Copyright_and_Open_Licensing_SeminarPlan
- Plan to conduct 1st WikiAcademy with the Department of Public
Libraries, Karnataka for their senior Library professionals on 12 Sep 2011.
- Membership currently stands at ~80
- Participation from community on some projects but the response is
below expectations. Chapter hopes that the response will improve as more
activities are taken up by Chapter in the near future.
- AGM will be conducted on September 24 2011.  Elections process  for
EC vacancies has been initiated.
- Process for applying for FCRA prior permission has been actioned with
necessary steps being taken with local banks, consultants and the WMF. The
bank account required for FCRA is ready. The draft of letter from WMF will
be finalized in a week by Chapter Accountant and Advisor (another
prerequisite) and then FCRA application will be submitted. 3-4 months are
required for approval by Home Ministry, Government of India.

 *Foundation Update*

- Education Program is doing well from a numbers perspective - with
more than 1000 students involved.  However, there is a great deal of effort
required to continue to support and enable and motivate these students.
Additional Campus Ambassadors are being selected from the participating
institutions.  Hisham requested that everyone reach out and be encouraging
to the Campus Ambassadors, students and teachers.
- 2 new staff members selected; Nitika has joined  Shiju will be
joining by October
- Initial conversations were being sought with leading mobile companies
to explore Wikipedia on mobile
- Independent public trust to be set up hopefully by next week,
followed by FCRA prior permission and other approvals required for tax
exemption, etc.

 *Collaboration on future projects*

 Some requests from colleges to participate in campus ambassador
 like program  were received by the chapter and Hisham. Hisham said that till
 the ongoing program is stable, he will not be able to roll it to other
 cities. He suggested  that colleges can get  started by forming  student
 clubs and Foundation staff are providing necessary information and
 assistance for the same. He also requested Chapter EC to extend their
 support for the same.

 Chapter seeks active involvement in the elections and looks to grow its
 membership base and expand it's reach in encouraging the use
 and contributions to the Wikimedia movement in India.

 Thank you.

 Best,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter - Executive Committee Elections 2011

[Theo10011]

Gautam and the organizing committee for the election, it might make sense in
extending the last date for nomination.

The window for nomination hasn't been open for long, it might make sense in
extending it for a while so more Wikimedians can hear about it.

Regards
Theo

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:40 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:

 Please note that the *last date of nominations* for Executive Committee
 Elections 2011 of Wikimedia India chapter is *Aug 29, 2011*

 With less than 3 days to go for the last date of nominations, there were
 just 2 nominations for the 3 vacant posts.

 This is very disappointing and concerning for the future of Wikimedia
 Chapter India.

 I sincerely appeal to the veteran Wikipedians / Wikimedians of India to
 come forward and help grow the chapter.

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian

 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Dear All:

 We have instituted a monthly call between the India Chapter and the
 Wikimedia Foundation.  Members of the Chapter EC, Hisham and Asaf Bartov
 (who heads up Global South Relationships at the Foundation) will participate
 in this call.  The objective of the call is to share information and improve
 collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia
 projects of relevance to India.  We had the first one on Aug 24, 2011, and
 here's a quick update.

 *Chapter Update*

- 30 persons attended the workshop on Copyright and Open Licensing
conducted on 30th July 2011 in Bangalore, which was well received.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Copyright_and_Open_Licensing_SeminarPlan
- Plan to conduct 1st WikiAcademy with the Department of Public
Libraries, Karnataka for their senior Library professionals on 12 Sep 
 2011.
- Membership currently stands at ~80
- Participation from community on some projects but the response is
below expectations. Chapter hopes that the response will improve as more
activities are taken up by Chapter in the near future.
- AGM will be conducted on September 24 2011.  Elections process  for
EC vacancies has been initiated.
- Process for applying for FCRA prior permission has been actioned
with necessary steps being taken with local banks, consultants and the 
 WMF.
The bank account required for FCRA is ready. The draft of letter from WMF
will be finalized in a week by Chapter Accountant and Advisor (another
prerequisite) and then FCRA application will be submitted. 3-4 months are
required for approval by Home Ministry, Government of India.

 *Foundation Update*

- Education Program is doing well from a numbers perspective - with
more than 1000 students involved.  However, there is a great deal of 
 effort
required to continue to support and enable and motivate these students.
Additional Campus Ambassadors are being selected from the participating
institutions.  Hisham requested that everyone reach out and be encouraging
to the Campus Ambassadors, students and teachers.
- 2 new staff members selected; Nitika has joined  Shiju will be
joining by October
- Initial conversations were being sought with leading mobile
companies to explore Wikipedia on mobile
- Independent public trust to be set up hopefully by next week,
followed by FCRA prior permission and other approvals required for tax
exemption, etc.

 *Collaboration on future projects*

 Some requests from colleges to participate in campus ambassador
 like program  were received by the chapter and Hisham. Hisham said that till
 the ongoing program is stable, he will not be able to roll it to other
 cities. He suggested  that colleges can get  started by forming  student
 clubs and Foundation staff are providing necessary information and
 assistance for the same. He also requested Chapter EC to extend their
 support for the same.

 Chapter seeks active involvement in the elections and looks to grow its
 membership base and expand it's reach in encouraging the use
 and contributions to the Wikimedia movement in India.

 Thank you.

 Best,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter - Executive Committee Elections 2011

[CherianTinu Abraham]

I have also requested the election committee and the current Exec team to
also publish the electoral roll too on the members wiki . This might help to
well wishers to appeal to the good candidates to stand for the elections and
help lead the Wikimedia movement.

-TC

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:

 Gautam and the organizing committee for the election, it might make sense
 in extending the last date for nomination.

 The window for nomination hasn't been open for long, it might make sense in
 extending it for a while so more Wikimedians can hear about it.

 Regards
 Theo


 On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:40 AM, CherianTinu Abraham 
 tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Please note that the *last date of nominations* for Executive Committee
 Elections 2011 of Wikimedia India chapter is *Aug 29, 2011*

 With less than 3 days to go for the last date of nominations, there were
 just 2 nominations for the 3 vacant posts.

 This is very disappointing and concerning for the future of Wikimedia
 Chapter India.

 I sincerely appeal to the veteran Wikipedians / Wikimedians of India to
 come forward and help grow the chapter.

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian

 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Dear All:

 We have instituted a monthly call between the India Chapter and the
 Wikimedia Foundation.  Members of the Chapter EC, Hisham and Asaf Bartov
 (who heads up Global South Relationships at the Foundation) will participate
 in this call.  The objective of the call is to share information and improve
 collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia
 projects of relevance to India.  We had the first one on Aug 24, 2011, and
 here's a quick update.

 *Chapter Update*

- 30 persons attended the workshop on Copyright and Open Licensing
conducted on 30th July 2011 in Bangalore, which was well received.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Copyright_and_Open_Licensing_SeminarPlan
- Plan to conduct 1st WikiAcademy with the Department of Public
Libraries, Karnataka for their senior Library professionals on 12 Sep 
 2011.
- Membership currently stands at ~80
- Participation from community on some projects but the response is
below expectations. Chapter hopes that the response will improve as more
activities are taken up by Chapter in the near future.
- AGM will be conducted on September 24 2011.  Elections process  for
EC vacancies has been initiated.
- Process for applying for FCRA prior permission has been actioned
with necessary steps being taken with local banks, consultants and the 
 WMF.
The bank account required for FCRA is ready. The draft of letter from WMF
will be finalized in a week by Chapter Accountant and Advisor (another
prerequisite) and then FCRA application will be submitted. 3-4 months are
required for approval by Home Ministry, Government of India.

 *Foundation Update*

- Education Program is doing well from a numbers perspective - with
more than 1000 students involved.  However, there is a great deal of 
 effort
required to continue to support and enable and motivate these students.
Additional Campus Ambassadors are being selected from the participating
institutions.  Hisham requested that everyone reach out and be 
 encouraging
to the Campus Ambassadors, students and teachers.
- 2 new staff members selected; Nitika has joined  Shiju will be
joining by October
- Initial conversations were being sought with leading mobile
companies to explore Wikipedia on mobile
- Independent public trust to be set up hopefully by next week,
followed by FCRA prior permission and other approvals required for tax
exemption, etc.

 *Collaboration on future projects*

 Some requests from colleges to participate in campus ambassador
 like program  were received by the chapter and Hisham. Hisham said that till
 the ongoing program is stable, he will not be able to roll it to other
 cities. He suggested  that colleges can get  started by forming  student
 clubs and Foundation staff are providing necessary information and
 assistance for the same. He also requested Chapter EC to extend their
 support for the same.

 Chapter seeks active involvement in the elections and looks to grow its
 membership base and expand it's reach in encouraging the use
 and contributions to the Wikimedia movement in India.

 Thank you.

 Best,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter - Executive Committee Elections 2011

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:

 I have also requested the election committee and the current Exec team to
 also publish the electoral roll too on the members wiki . This might help to
 well wishers to appeal to the good candidates to stand for the elections and
 help lead the Wikimedia movement.


Thanks for sharing your concern.  As of now, there has been some more
nominations.   The right forums for EC elections discussions are members
wiki  (http://members.wikimedia.in) and  members mailing list. (
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com

I request all the well wishers who are members to use the same. If any
member has access issues, the same could be brought to Chapter's notice.

Cheers
Arjun


 -TC

 On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:

 Gautam and the organizing committee for the election, it might make sense
 in extending the last date for nomination.

 The window for nomination hasn't been open for long, it might make sense
 in extending it for a while so more Wikimedians can hear about it.

 Regards
 Theo


 On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 8:40 AM, CherianTinu Abraham 
 tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Please note that the *last date of nominations* for Executive Committee
 Elections 2011 of Wikimedia India chapter is *Aug 29, 2011*

 With less than 3 days to go for the last date of nominations, there were
 just 2 nominations for the 3 vacant posts.

 This is very disappointing and concerning for the future of Wikimedia
 Chapter India.

 I sincerely appeal to the veteran Wikipedians / Wikimedians of India to
 come forward and help grow the chapter.

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian

 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Gautam John 
 gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Dear All:

 We have instituted a monthly call between the India Chapter and the
 Wikimedia Foundation.  Members of the Chapter EC, Hisham and Asaf Bartov
 (who heads up Global South Relationships at the Foundation) will 
 participate
 in this call.  The objective of the call is to share information and 
 improve
 collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia
 projects of relevance to India.  We had the first one on Aug 24, 2011, and
 here's a quick update.

 *Chapter Update*

- 30 persons attended the workshop on Copyright and Open Licensing
conducted on 30th July 2011 in Bangalore, which was well received.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Copyright_and_Open_Licensing_SeminarPlan
- Plan to conduct 1st WikiAcademy with the Department of Public
Libraries, Karnataka for their senior Library professionals on 12 Sep 
 2011.
- Membership currently stands at ~80
- Participation from community on some projects but the response is
below expectations. Chapter hopes that the response will improve as more
activities are taken up by Chapter in the near future.
- AGM will be conducted on September 24 2011.  Elections process
 for EC vacancies has been initiated.
- Process for applying for FCRA prior permission has been actioned
with necessary steps being taken with local banks, consultants and the 
 WMF.
The bank account required for FCRA is ready. The draft of letter from 
 WMF
will be finalized in a week by Chapter Accountant and Advisor (another
prerequisite) and then FCRA application will be submitted. 3-4 months 
 are
required for approval by Home Ministry, Government of India.

 *Foundation Update*

- Education Program is doing well from a numbers perspective - with
more than 1000 students involved.  However, there is a great deal of 
 effort
required to continue to support and enable and motivate these students.
Additional Campus Ambassadors are being selected from the participating
institutions.  Hisham requested that everyone reach out and be 
 encouraging
to the Campus Ambassadors, students and teachers.
- 2 new staff members selected; Nitika has joined  Shiju will be
joining by October
- Initial conversations were being sought with leading mobile
companies to explore Wikipedia on mobile
- Independent public trust to be set up hopefully by next week,
followed by FCRA prior permission and other approvals required for tax
exemption, etc.

 *Collaboration on future projects*

 Some requests from colleges to participate in campus ambassador
 like program  were received by the chapter and Hisham. Hisham said that 
 till
 the ongoing program is stable, he will not be able to roll it to other
 cities. He suggested  that colleges can get  started by forming  student
 clubs and Foundation staff are providing necessary information and
 assistance for the same. He also requested Chapter EC to extend their
 support for the same.

 Chapter seeks active involvement in the elections and looks to grow its
 membership base and expand it's reach in encouraging the use
 and contributions to the Wikimedia movement in India.

 Thank you.

 Best,

 Gautam



 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter Report, 03 January 2011 - 16 March 2011

[Anirudh Bhati]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks a lot Anirudh / others behind it for a detailed report. IMHO Posting
 a page on wikimedia.in and mailing the link is better and talk pages can
 serve better for discussions instead of lists alone. Probably can be done
 from next time.

Thanks Srikanth.  I believe it's general practice for the Chapters to
make the chapter reports available on mailing lists and I personally
like the idea too.  I'm happy to restrict the posting to the Wikimedia
Chapter Wiki if there are others who feel the same.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:35 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

 I beg to differ, Srikanth. IMHO it was a good idea to send the detailed
 report to the India mailing list.
 Throughly enjoyed reading the complete report although it missed the meetups
 and workshops in Trichy and Kerala.

Like I told you earlier, the things which we have missed will be
included in the next report.  Thanks for your support once again!

anirudh

00 91 9328712208

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter Report, 03 January 2011 - 16 March 2011

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

Thanks a lot Anirudh / others behind it for a detailed report. IMHO Posting
a page on wikimedia.in and mailing the link is better and talk pages can
serve better for discussions instead of lists alone. Probably can be done
from next time.

Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter Report, 03 January 2011 - 16 March 2011

[CherianTinu Abraham]

I beg to differ, Srikanth. IMHO it was a good idea to send the detailed
report to the India mailing list.
Throughly enjoyed reading the complete report although it missed the meetups
and workshops in Trichy and Kerala.

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:

 Thanks a lot Anirudh / others behind it for a detailed report. IMHO Posting
 a page on wikimedia.in and mailing the link is better and talk pages can
 serve better for discussions instead of lists alone. Probably can be done
 from next time.

 Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[CherianTinu Abraham]

FYI
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27089

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27089Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Jyothis Edathoot j...@jyothis.net wrote:

 Tinu,

 That would work, but depends upon how you wish to move (completely managed
 Vs just availing space and bandwidth, but server managed by chapter) to the
 foundation servers.  if chapter staff is going manage the installation (and
 not foundation), someone still needs to set it up correctly.

 Regards,
 Jyothis.

 http://www.Jyothis.net

 http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
 I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com

 woods are lovely dark and deep,
 but i have promises to keep and
 miles to go before i sleep and
 lines to go before I press sleep

 completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
 resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings



 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:00 AM, CherianTinu Abraham 
 tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Jyothis,
   AFAIK, this MW is privately hosted by a chapter exec com
 member on his personal webhosting, as of now. Enabling file uploading is
 costlier, hence probably.
   My suggestion is to move it to the Wikimedia servers ( like
 some other chapters), so that we needn't worry of server space, bandwidth 
 security ( at least until the chapter is rich enough to do so) ...

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian

 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Jyothis Edathoot j...@jyothis.net wrote:

 What is the problem in file uploads? Not enabled in LocalSettings.php
 again?

 Who ever managing this MW installation might want to spend some time
 reading the Manual for MW. Here is how you 
 enablehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads File
 uploads. At the minimum, please read thru the LocalSettings.php to see what
 useful items can be enabled / ask others in mailing lists / IRC / use
 googlehttp://www.google.com/search?aq=fsourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=mediawiki+enable+file+upload
 .

 *## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory*
 *## is writable, then set this to true:*
 *$wgEnableUploads   = true;*


 Regards,
 Jyothis.

 http://www.Jyothis.net

 http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
 I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com

 woods are lovely dark and deep,
 but i have promises to keep and
 miles to go before i sleep and
 lines to go before I press sleep

 completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
 resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings




 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:

 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration
 away. I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you
 with that.



 Enabling Commons images for a MediaWiki installation is very simple. I
 thought many in the list know about this. Malayalam wikimedians have
 implemented this feature in their community website (
 http://mlwiki.in/wiki/) sometime back.


 To enable commons in our private wiki, just add the below code in the *
 LocalSettings.php* file

 *$wgUseInstantCommons = true; *


 This feature is called *InstantCommons*, and many of us are using it.
 See more details at

-

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#InstantCommons
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons






 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen 
 gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hoi,
 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration
 away. I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you
 with that.
 Thanks,
   GerardM


 On 1 February 2011 07:59, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Thank you, Sue.
 Once the technical issue of file upload (pointed out by Tinu) is
 resolved by
 moving to Wikimedia servers, we'll certainly add mugshots of the EC
 members.

 - Sundar

  That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a
 medium for
 the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
 - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



 - Original Message 
  From: Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org
  To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
 wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 5:44:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
 
  On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an
 internal
discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself
 turned out to
 be
   a huge exercise):
 
  Hi Sundar,
 
  Thanks so much for sending  that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
  creating it -- I found it really useful.  I don't spend a lot of
 time
  on this mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away. I
am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with that.
Thanks,
  GerardM

On 1 February 2011 07:59, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Thank you, Sue.
 Once the technical issue of file upload (pointed out by Tinu) is resolved
 by
 moving to Wikimedia servers, we'll certainly add mugshots of the EC
 members.

 - Sundar

  That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
 for
 the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
 - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



 - Original Message 
  From: Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org
  To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
 wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 5:44:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
 
  On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an internal
discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself turned
 out to
 be
   a huge exercise):
 
  Hi Sundar,
 
  Thanks so much for sending  that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
  creating it -- I found it really useful.  I don't spend a lot of time
  on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter  wiki, and it helped me
  feel caught up :-)
 
  Here's a small suggestion,  which you should ignore if you like.
  Personally, I'd love if the chapter  would post photos of its Executive
  Committee members on the site  here:
  http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. I think  I've
  probably met half of the Executive Committee members over the  years,
  but it'd be easier for me to mentally keep faces attached to names  if
  there were images on the wiki.
 
  Feel free to ignore that, if it'd be  a hassle.
 
  Thanks,
  Sue
 
 
 
  --
  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
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[Shiju Alex]

 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away. I
 am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with that.



Enabling Commons images for a MediaWiki installation is very simple. I
thought many in the list know about this. Malayalam wikimedians have
implemented this feature in their community website (http://mlwiki.in/wiki/)
sometime back.


To enable commons in our private wiki, just add the below code in the *
LocalSettings.php* file

*$wgUseInstantCommons = true; *


This feature is called *InstantCommons*, and many of us are using it. See
more details at

   -
   
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#InstantCommons
   - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons






On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hoi,
 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away. I
 am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with that.
 Thanks,
   GerardM


 On 1 February 2011 07:59, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Thank you, Sue.
 Once the technical issue of file upload (pointed out by Tinu) is resolved
 by
 moving to Wikimedia servers, we'll certainly add mugshots of the EC
 members.

 - Sundar

  That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
 for
 the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
 - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



 - Original Message 
  From: Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org
  To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
 wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 5:44:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
 
  On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an
 internal
discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself turned
 out to
 be
   a huge exercise):
 
  Hi Sundar,
 
  Thanks so much for sending  that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
  creating it -- I found it really useful.  I don't spend a lot of time
  on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter  wiki, and it helped me
  feel caught up :-)
 
  Here's a small suggestion,  which you should ignore if you like.
  Personally, I'd love if the chapter  would post photos of its Executive
  Committee members on the site  here:
  http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. I think  I've
  probably met half of the Executive Committee members over the  years,
  but it'd be easier for me to mentally keep faces attached to names  if
  there were images on the wiki.
 
  Feel free to ignore that, if it'd be  a hassle.
 
  Thanks,
  Sue
 
 
 
  --
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  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
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[Jyothis Edathoot]

What is the problem in file uploads? Not enabled in LocalSettings.php again?

Who ever managing this MW installation might want to spend some time reading
the Manual for MW. Here is how you
enablehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads
File
uploads. At the minimum, please read thru the LocalSettings.php to see what
useful items can be enabled / ask others in mailing lists / IRC / use
googlehttp://www.google.com/search?aq=fsourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=mediawiki+enable+file+upload
.

*## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory*
*## is writable, then set this to true:*
*$wgEnableUploads   = true;*


Regards,
Jyothis.

http://www.Jyothis.net

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com

woods are lovely dark and deep,
but i have promises to keep and
miles to go before i sleep and
lines to go before I press sleep

completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources)
+ ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings



On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:

 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away. I
 am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with that.



 Enabling Commons images for a MediaWiki installation is very simple. I
 thought many in the list know about this. Malayalam wikimedians have
 implemented this feature in their community website (
 http://mlwiki.in/wiki/) sometime back.


 To enable commons in our private wiki, just add the below code in the *
 LocalSettings.php* file

 *$wgUseInstantCommons = true; *


 This feature is called *InstantCommons*, and many of us are using it. See
 more details at

-

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#InstantCommons
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons






 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 Hoi,
 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away.
 I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with
 that.
 Thanks,
   GerardM


 On 1 February 2011 07:59, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Thank you, Sue.
 Once the technical issue of file upload (pointed out by Tinu) is resolved
 by
 moving to Wikimedia servers, we'll certainly add mugshots of the EC
 members.

 - Sundar

  That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
 for
 the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
 - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



 - Original Message 
  From: Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org
  To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
 wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 5:44:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
 
  On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an
 internal
discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself
 turned out to
 be
   a huge exercise):
 
  Hi Sundar,
 
  Thanks so much for sending  that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
  creating it -- I found it really useful.  I don't spend a lot of time
  on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter  wiki, and it helped me
  feel caught up :-)
 
  Here's a small suggestion,  which you should ignore if you like.
  Personally, I'd love if the chapter  would post photos of its Executive
  Committee members on the site  here:
  http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. I think  I've
  probably met half of the Executive Committee members over the  years,
  but it'd be easier for me to mentally keep faces attached to names  if
  there were images on the wiki.
 
  Feel free to ignore that, if it'd be  a hassle.
 
  Thanks,
  Sue
 
 
 
  --
  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
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Hi Jyothis,
  AFAIK, this MW is privately hosted by a chapter exec com
member on his personal webhosting, as of now. Enabling file uploading is
costlier, hence probably.
  My suggestion is to move it to the Wikimedia servers ( like
some other chapters), so that we needn't worry of server space, bandwidth 
security ( at least until the chapter is rich enough to do so) ...

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Jyothis Edathoot j...@jyothis.net wrote:

 What is the problem in file uploads? Not enabled in LocalSettings.php
 again?

 Who ever managing this MW installation might want to spend some time
 reading the Manual for MW. Here is how you 
 enablehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads File
 uploads. At the minimum, please read thru the LocalSettings.php to see what
 useful items can be enabled / ask others in mailing lists / IRC / use
 googlehttp://www.google.com/search?aq=fsourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=mediawiki+enable+file+upload
 .

 *## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory*
 *## is writable, then set this to true:*
 *$wgEnableUploads   = true;*


 Regards,
 Jyothis.

 http://www.Jyothis.net

 http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
 I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com

 woods are lovely dark and deep,
 but i have promises to keep and
 miles to go before i sleep and
 lines to go before I press sleep

 completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
 resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings




 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:

 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away.
 I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with
 that.



 Enabling Commons images for a MediaWiki installation is very simple. I
 thought many in the list know about this. Malayalam wikimedians have
 implemented this feature in their community website (
 http://mlwiki.in/wiki/) sometime back.


 To enable commons in our private wiki, just add the below code in the *
 LocalSettings.php* file

 *$wgUseInstantCommons = true; *


 This feature is called *InstantCommons*, and many of us are using it. See
 more details at

-

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#InstantCommons
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons






 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen 
 gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hoi,
 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away.
 I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with
 that.
 Thanks,
   GerardM


 On 1 February 2011 07:59, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Thank you, Sue.
 Once the technical issue of file upload (pointed out by Tinu) is
 resolved by
 moving to Wikimedia servers, we'll certainly add mugshots of the EC
 members.

 - Sundar

  That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a
 medium for
 the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
 - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



 - Original Message 
  From: Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org
  To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
 wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 5:44:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
 
  On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an
 internal
discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself
 turned out to
 be
   a huge exercise):
 
  Hi Sundar,
 
  Thanks so much for sending  that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
  creating it -- I found it really useful.  I don't spend a lot of time
  on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter  wiki, and it helped me
  feel caught up :-)
 
  Here's a small suggestion,  which you should ignore if you like.
  Personally, I'd love if the chapter  would post photos of its
 Executive
  Committee members on the site  here:
  http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. I think  I've
  probably met half of the Executive Committee members over the  years,
  but it'd be easier for me to mentally keep faces attached to names  if
  there were images on the wiki.
 
  Feel free to ignore that, if it'd be  a hassle.
 
  Thanks,
  Sue
 
 
 
  --
  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
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[Jyothis Edathoot]

Tinu,

That would work, but depends upon how you wish to move (completely managed
Vs just availing space and bandwidth, but server managed by chapter) to the
foundation servers.  if chapter staff is going manage the installation (and
not foundation), someone still needs to set it up correctly.

Regards,
Jyothis.

http://www.Jyothis.net

http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com

woods are lovely dark and deep,
but i have promises to keep and
miles to go before i sleep and
lines to go before I press sleep

completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources)
+ ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings



On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:00 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi Jyothis,
   AFAIK, this MW is privately hosted by a chapter exec com
 member on his personal webhosting, as of now. Enabling file uploading is
 costlier, hence probably.
   My suggestion is to move it to the Wikimedia servers ( like
 some other chapters), so that we needn't worry of server space, bandwidth 
 security ( at least until the chapter is rich enough to do so) ...

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian

 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Jyothis Edathoot j...@jyothis.net wrote:

 What is the problem in file uploads? Not enabled in LocalSettings.php
 again?

 Who ever managing this MW installation might want to spend some time
 reading the Manual for MW. Here is how you 
 enablehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuring_file_uploads File
 uploads. At the minimum, please read thru the LocalSettings.php to see what
 useful items can be enabled / ask others in mailing lists / IRC / use
 googlehttp://www.google.com/search?aq=fsourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=mediawiki+enable+file+upload
 .

 *## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory*
 *## is writable, then set this to true:*
 *$wgEnableUploads   = true;*


 Regards,
 Jyothis.

 http://www.Jyothis.net

 http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis
 I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com

 woods are lovely dark and deep,
 but i have promises to keep and
 miles to go before i sleep and
 lines to go before I press sleep

 completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) /
 resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings




 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:

 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration away.
 I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you with
 that.



 Enabling Commons images for a MediaWiki installation is very simple. I
 thought many in the list know about this. Malayalam wikimedians have
 implemented this feature in their community website (
 http://mlwiki.in/wiki/) sometime back.


 To enable commons in our private wiki, just add the below code in the *
 LocalSettings.php* file

 *$wgUseInstantCommons = true; *


 This feature is called *InstantCommons*, and many of us are using it.
 See more details at

-

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia#InstantCommons
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons






 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen 
 gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hoi,
 Enabling the use of images on Commons is just a small configuration
 away. I am sure and know that there are competent people who can help you
 with that.
 Thanks,
   GerardM


 On 1 February 2011 07:59, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Thank you, Sue.
 Once the technical issue of file upload (pointed out by Tinu) is
 resolved by
 moving to Wikimedia servers, we'll certainly add mugshots of the EC
 members.

 - Sundar

  That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a
 medium for
 the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
 - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



 - Original Message 
  From: Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org
  To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.
 wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 5:44:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
 
  On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com
 wrote:
Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an
 internal
discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself
 turned out to
 be
   a huge exercise):
 
  Hi Sundar,
 
  Thanks so much for sending  that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
  creating it -- I found it really useful.  I don't spend a lot of time
  on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter  wiki, and it helped
 me
  feel caught up :-)
 
  Here's a small suggestion,  which you should ignore if you like.
  Personally, I'd love if the chapter  would post photos of its
 Executive
  Committee members

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[Sue Gardner]

On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an internal
 discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself turned out to 
 be
 a huge exercise):

Hi Sundar,

Thanks so much for sending that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
creating it -- I found it really useful. I don't spend a lot of time
on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter wiki, and it helped me
feel caught up :-)

Here's a small suggestion, which you should ignore if you like.
Personally, I'd love if the chapter would post photos of its Executive
Committee members on the site here:
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. I think I've
probably met half of the Executive Committee members over the years,
but it'd be easier for me to mentally keep faces attached to names if
there were images on the wiki.

Feel free to ignore that, if it'd be a hassle.

Thanks,
Sue



--
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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

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[CherianTinu Abraham]

That is an excellent idea, Sue.

But I believe the site , as of now, doesn't allow file uploads.
Time to move to Wikimedia servers, so that commons images can be reused
directly?

Will also help if we are hosting our future India newsletters on
wikimedia.in ...

I have also added the office positions, per MoA , to
http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. How about a short bio
like foundation website on Board members  Adv Board members ?

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:
  Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an internal
  discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself turned out
 to be
  a huge exercise):

 Hi Sundar,

 Thanks so much for sending that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
 creating it -- I found it really useful. I don't spend a lot of time
 on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter wiki, and it helped me
 feel caught up :-)

 Here's a small suggestion, which you should ignore if you like.
 Personally, I'd love if the chapter would post photos of its Executive
 Committee members on the site here:
 http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. I think I've
 probably met half of the Executive Committee members over the years,
 but it'd be easier for me to mentally keep faces attached to names if
 there were images on the wiki.

 Feel free to ignore that, if it'd be a hassle.

 Thanks,
 Sue



 --
 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

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[jayanta nath]

yes we need to move ASAP to Wikimedia server to use commons images.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:

 That is an excellent idea, Sue.

 But I believe the site , as of now, doesn't allow file uploads.
 Time to move to Wikimedia servers, so that commons images can be reused
 directly?

 Will also help if we are hosting our future India newsletters on
 wikimedia.in ...

 I have also added the office positions, per MoA , to
 http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. How about a short
 bio like foundation website on Board members  Adv Board members ?

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian


 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:
  Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an internal
  discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself turned
 out to be
  a huge exercise):

 Hi Sundar,

 Thanks so much for sending that list, and thanks to ArunRam for
 creating it -- I found it really useful. I don't spend a lot of time
 on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter wiki, and it helped me
 feel caught up :-)

 Here's a small suggestion, which you should ignore if you like.
 Personally, I'd love if the chapter would post photos of its Executive
 Committee members on the site here:
 http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. I think I've
 probably met half of the Executive Committee members over the years,
 but it'd be easier for me to mentally keep faces attached to names if
 there were images on the wiki.

 Feel free to ignore that, if it'd be a hassle.

 Thanks,
 Sue



 --
 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
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 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[praveenp]

On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:56 AM, jayanta nath wrote:
 Nos of edit is not criteria. The chapter created as society so there 
 must be voting system. So not worry!!
Then what was the criteria?

On Sunday 30 January 2011 01:03 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
 Can you please put up your ideas and give some examples so that people
 here will get some more clarity.

 As you mentioned, things are fair but not enough please put up your
 ideas so that things will be enough and more

I feel I am keeping myself here without any bruises, even against 
chapter members, challenging their credibility and ability. For me it is 
good; but for a community it is bad. That explains a lot. :-( (BTW where 
is president and some other members of chapter? are they members of this 
list?)

I rmember I asked about chapter's future plans in one of the other 
threads, but still no answer. Is there any basic ideas about future 
activities? Where I can find them?
May I know, whether asking idea is the basic idea? :) (I dont think it 
is bad, but a chapter need atleast basic line up. don't give MoA link, 
I've seen it many times :D)

For eg, in commons many images originated from India are deleted or 
waiting to get deleted, just because no source available saying it is in 
PD. Chapter can initiate a project to find PD images from India. Any 
member can find many such issues, if they are wiki-rooted.

I didn't said I am an 'idea'(l) man. I tried to say, lack of openness of 
chapter, non-supportive character and credibility doubts of members of 
chapter. (I got one more, I think.)

For now I said enough. I don't want to start this from very beginning 
again. I hope chapter will take appropriate measures to erase any 
doubts of users.

Thank you.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[BalaSundaraRaman]

 I rmember I asked about chapter's future plans in one of the other 
 threads, but still no answer. Is there any basic ideas about future 
 activities? Where I can find them?


Praveen, http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Main_Page is the place where chapter 
activities are discussed.
By the way, the chapter doesn't mean just the EC, it'll include all volunteer 
members once membership can be opened.
Please also remember that the chapter has come into existence only on Jan 3, 
2011 and we have had only one meeting so far.
We've tried to communicate as often as possible with the wider community 
through 
this list and the wiki, but more can be done certainly.

Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an internal 
discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself turned out to be 
a huge exercise):

* We have a open mailing list people can write to. It has started to 
work well. 
As an example we received an email from community this morning.
* The EC members are now responding to queries or comments that come up 
on the 
Foundation and India list. 
* The Wikimedia. in is up and running. You may have noticed EC members 
beginning to encourage community to use this organize their events.
* We have an established internal wiki where our meeting minutes are 
published, 
 EC project plans drawn, contact repositories being built.
* As a team we have learnt to work with each other and understand our 
complementary skills, we have evolved mechanisms for decision making, rapid 
actions and dealing with conflict openly and objectively.  (To me these are 
important steps that make effective teams)
* The EC team is paying attention to the OTRS lists. Anirudh is taking 
the lead 
here.
* The EC has been engaging and met community in some cities  
(Bangalore, Delhi, 
Mumbai). With grant support form Barry we will be able to do more face to face 
meetings to build traction.
* Sundar and Arjuna are engaging with Google. I am engaging with CDAC. 
HPN with 
Knowledge commission. Anirudh and Srinivas are bootstrapping communities in 
Ahmedabad and Indore. 
* Arjuna and Anirudh participated and manned stalls at Foss.in along 
with 
community (Arun Ganesh).
* The EC members have now taken it on them to participate and speak at 
external 
forums to spread the word about wikipedia and wikimedia: Gautam spoke at a 
conference, Arjuna spoke at a international conference in Delhi on 
localisation, 
Srinivas spoke at a conference in Bangalore, I spoke at a conference in Bhopal 
organised by the MP government.
* Chapter teams attended meeting with Barry when he was in India and 
attended a 
few meetings with Eric and Danese. HPN and I were present for the Jimmy visit.
* Gautam and I  have been persistently following up with regular 
follow-up 
visits to the registrar to close out the Chapter registration. Yes, it has been 
painfully slow due to government bureaucracy.
* Chapter EC members have also actively helped run meetups and 
academies in 
cities - Bangalore, Kannada meetup (held recently), Delhi meetup 2. The many 
Academies that Arjuna has helped with.
Individual chapter members co-ordinated many of the hugely successful WP Ten 
celebratory events across the country recently. BLR (Arun, Gautam, HPN, Arjuna, 
Srinivas and me), Indore (Srinivas), Delhi (Anirudh), Mysore (HPN), Because of 
the delay in registration, we have not put these activities under official 
chapter functions so far. There are so many other examples of such activities 
of 
individual members. 
See http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sundar and 
Anirudh's participation in the movement roles' project for example. 

That said,  I agree that we should have better and more frequent communications 
in the future. Hopefully, we can all do that with more support from community 
members.

- Sundar
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the 
expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



- Original Message 
 From: praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com
 To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. 
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 3:36:41 PM
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
 
 On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:56 AM, jayanta nath wrote:
  Nos of edit is  not criteria. The chapter created as society so there 
  must be voting  system. So not worry!!
 Then what was the criteria?
 
 On Sunday 30  January 2011 01:03 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
  Can you please put up  your ideas and give some examples so that people
  here will get some more  clarity.
 
  As you mentioned, things are fair but not enough  please put up your
  ideas so that things will be enough and  more
 
 I feel I am keeping myself here without any bruises, even against 
 chapter members

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[BalaSundaraRaman]

Praveen,

Forgot to answer one of your questions:
  Nos of edit is not criteria. The chapter created as society so there 
  must be voting system. So not worry!!
 Then what was the criteria?

While there's no hard criteria that I can 
give, 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Guidelines_for_future_chapters#Contributor_involvement
 gives
 the guidelines:
As specified in the requirements, involvement of contributors to the Wikimedia 
projects is essential to the grounding of a chapter.
However, it is crucial that each chapter remains an entity separate from the 
Wikimedia projects. Chapters are independent organisations that group users of 
the Wikimedia projects, regardless of their number of edits or roles within the 
projects, as well as friends and supporters of those projects.
Founding a chapter with all the admins in the projects, or only active 
contributors is the wrong way to go. It is possible that people who are not 
active contributors will be interested in the real life commitment to the 
Wikimedia movement that chapters enable, while others who are active 
contributors will not see the necessity for a chapter. Make sure the balance is 
kept between who is part of the chapter and who is not.
The Wikimedia projects are not the chapter's playground and the chapter should 
never confer to its members a position of specific power within a Wikimedia 
project.

I think there was a discussion on this earlier and Achal or someone gave a 
history of how the people came together for this. If anyone can locate the 
thread on the list archives, please 
share. 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India_chapter#Background_and_Progress 
captures
 parts of it (and the earlier unsuccessful attempts).

- Sundar
 That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture



- Original Message 
 From: praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com
 To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. 
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 3:36:41 PM
 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
 
 On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:56 AM, jayanta nath wrote:
  Nos of edit is  not criteria. The chapter created as society so there 
  must be voting  system. So not worry!!
 Then what was the criteria?
 
 On Sunday 30  January 2011 01:03 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
  Can you please put up  your ideas and give some examples so that people
  here will get some more  clarity.
 
  As you mentioned, things are fair but not enough  please put up your
  ideas so that things will be enough and  more
 
 I feel I am keeping myself here without any bruises, even against 
 chapter members, challenging their credibility and ability. For me it is 
 good; but for a community it is bad. That explains a lot. :-( (BTW where 
 is president and some other members of chapter? are they members of this 
 list?)
 
 I rmember I asked about chapter's future plans in one of the  other 
 threads, but still no answer. Is there any basic ideas about future 
 activities? Where I can find them?
 May I know, whether asking idea is the  basic idea? :) (I dont think it 
 is bad, but a chapter need atleast basic  line up. don't give MoA link, 
 I've seen it many times :D)
 
 For eg, in  commons many images originated from India are deleted or 
 waiting to get  deleted, just because no source available saying it is in 
 PD. Chapter can  initiate a project to find PD images from India. Any 
 member can find many  such issues, if they are wiki-rooted.
 
 I didn't said I am an 'idea'(l)  man. I tried to say, lack of openness of 
 chapter, non-supportive character  and credibility doubts of members of 
 chapter. (I got one more, I  think.)
 
 For now I said enough. I don't want to start this from very  beginning 
 again. I hope chapter will take appropriate measures to erase  any 
 doubts of users.
 
 Thank  you.
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Thanks Gautam ,
Would it be a good idea to record the Agenda  MoM of the EC meetings ( 
hopefully previous ones, if there are ) ? That may possibly help the
community to be in sync with what the chapter is thinking  planning.. and
important decisions that are taken. Thoughts ?

Not sure, whether there is a possibility of an annual meeting within this
financial year as articulated by MoA.

One person raised a question to me privately, I thought it might be good to
ask here, that whether the current term of office bearers like President etc
and EC members starts from the date of approval of the chapter or
registration date of the chapter in India ?

Last year 2010, Arunram  Hari Nadig represented India at the
Chapter committees in Berlin , as chapter to be. It will be a proud moment
as we are representing us as an official chapter for the first time, this
year. Was wondering if the community has some expectations on this.
Thoughts?

Congrats and best wishes to Anirudh who is representing India at Frankfurt,
Germany on the movement roles Project
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project

As we wait for the announcements of Wikimedia Foundation office in India 
National Program Director, I believe 2011 will be a great year for the
Wikimedia India movement.

Regards
Tinu Cherian

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Thank you, Tinu.

 Praveen, we probably have been less than ideal in our communication
 and we still trying to find our feet here. Suggestions are welcome,
 please.

 As for membership, as soon as we have our bank account which should
 happen in four weeks or so.

 Best,

 Gautam
 
 http://social.prathambooks.org/




 On 30 January 2011 07:57, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) )
  Hi Praveen,
  May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India
  chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ;
 there
  is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are
 [2] Arun
  Ramarathnam,  President ; BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; Arjuna
  Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc
  May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the
  community?
  or even making the agenda  meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India
 chapter
  EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that
 these
  confusions to common Wikimedians can be avoided) ?
  If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members
 must
  be happy to answer them.
  I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active
 and
  the chapter  community working closely in the coming days.
  [1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished
  [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer
  [3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings
 
  Regards
  Tinu Cherian
  N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC
  member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on
  the mailing lists.
 
  On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:40 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I like that incidental fallout phrase. ;-) I can now understand why
  chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :)
 
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[jayanta nath]

I am from Kolkata West Bengal ( Bengali Wikipedia). I would like to know
what kind of support want from me and vice versa regarding membership.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 Thank you, Tinu.

 Praveen, we probably have been less than ideal in our communication
 and we still trying to find our feet here. Suggestions are welcome,
 please.

 As for membership, as soon as we have our bank account which should
 happen in four weeks or so.

 Best,

 Gautam
 
 http://social.prathambooks.org/




 On 30 January 2011 07:57, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) )
  Hi Praveen,
  May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India
  chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ;
 there
  is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are
 [2] Arun
  Ramarathnam,  President ; BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; Arjuna
  Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc
  May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the
  community?
  or even making the agenda  meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India
 chapter
  EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that
 these
  confusions to common Wikimedians can be avoided) ?
  If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members
 must
  be happy to answer them.
  I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active
 and
  the chapter  community working closely in the coming days.
  [1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished
  [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer
  [3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings
 
  Regards
  Tinu Cherian
  N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC
  member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on
  the mailing lists.
 
  On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:40 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I like that incidental fallout phrase. ;-) I can now understand why
  chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :)
 
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[praveenp]

On 30 January 2011 07:57, CherianTinu Abrahamtinucher...@gmail.com  wrote:


Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) )
Hi Praveen,
May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India
chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ; there
is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are [2] Arun
Ramarathnam,  President ; BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; Arjuna
Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc
May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the
community?
or even making the agenda  meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India chapter
EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that these
confusions to common Wikimedians can be avoided) ?
If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members must
be happy to answer them.
I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active and
the chapter  community working closely in the coming days.
[1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer
[3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings

Regards
Tinu Cherian
N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC
member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on
the mailing lists.


:)

I believe I've sent a couple of mails on this matter. And on a quick 
search I found my last query is not answered :(


BTW don't interpret my queries as I am a candidate for membership. I do 
not and will not want any kind of membership there, I've my limitations. 
But I want it open, I want clear communication, I want answers, I want a 
clear view of Its procedures and actions. And I am certain that we need  
more ground based members, who can effectively communicate common 
users and holding wiki ideology.


I expect encouragements from a chapter and its members. But I found 
no encouragements but teasing from that side in the parent thread. I'm 
sorry If I hurt anyone; But I really have to ask my doubts, I am an 
Indian Wikimedian :)


On Sunday 30 January 2011 09:26 AM, Gautam John wrote:

  we still trying to find our feet here. Suggestions are welcome,
please.


In that case what was the urgency to such a premature creation?


As for membership, as soon as we have our bank account which should
happen in four weeks or so.
I believe I am clear above. May I know how you are connected wikimedia 
communities? I don't understand that how a man reluctant to edit wikies  
(UL 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACentralAuthtarget=GKJohn) 
is so passionate to lead other users from WMIN.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[Gautam John]

Dear Tinu and Jayanta:

Thank you very much for the ideas and suggestions.

The minutes and resolutions should be part of the public record.

As much as I think it would be nice to have an AGM this year, there is
a good chance that we will get out PAN/Bank Account etc. too late for
this to be possible in a meaningful way with a significant general
body. What might be a good idea is to have an EC public meeting of
some sorts some time soon?

As for the term, I think it runs from the date of the first EC meeting
post registration but will check.

A thought was maybe we could create a new page on http://wikimedia.in/
and start to fill in the what the community thinks the role of the EC
ought to be and use that as a starting point for discussions?

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[praveenp]

On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:27 AM, Gautam John wrote:
 Dear Praveen:

 In that case what was the urgency to such a premature creation?
 I don't quite understand - urgency? One can only find one's feet after
 the body is created, right?

Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body.

 I believe I am clear above. May I know how you are connected wikimedia
 communities? I don't understand that how a man reluctant to edit wikies
 (UL) is so passionate to lead other users from WMIN.
 Fair criticism Praveen and you aren't the first one to ask either.
 Wikimedia, to me, is larger than the just projects and embodies
 philosophies and ideals that I find very dear. Much of my work
 revolves around these ideals and you can read some of it here:
 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/24780

 I have no desire to lead but one to bootstrap a body that is
 supportive of the community - of all of you. I am immaterial in the
 larger scheme of the things and the Chapter should and must be a
 reflection of the community.

 Thank you.
Fair, But I think not enough :(

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[Gautam John]

On 30 January 2011 11:39, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:

 Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body.

Well, that does exist in the aims and objective in the MoA that is up
on Meta and while those are broad, direction-ary goals, it behooves
upon us all to detail them.

 Fair, But I think not enough :(

I respect your criticism.

Thank you.

Best,

Gautam

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[jayanta nath]

@Praveen,Chapter just now created. So in future there must be openness for
all issue. Anyone can join our advocacy programme without edit wikimedia.
Nos of edit is not criteria. The chapter created as society so there must be
voting system. So not worry!!

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 On 30 January 2011 11:39, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:

  Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body.

 Well, that does exist in the aims and objective in the MoA that is up
 on Meta and while those are broad, direction-ary goals, it behooves
 upon us all to detail them.

  Fair, But I think not enough :(

 I respect your criticism.

 Thank you.

 Best,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

Dear Praveen,

I think I am missing some of the points here.

Can you please put up your ideas and give some examples so that people
here will get some more clarity.

As you mentioned, things are fair but not enough please put up your
ideas so that things will be enough and more

All of us can think and work in achieving it..

Best regards,
-Sudhanwa



On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:39 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:27 AM, Gautam John wrote:
 Dear Praveen:

 In that case what was the urgency to such a premature creation?
 I don't quite understand - urgency? One can only find one's feet after
 the body is created, right?

 Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body.

 I believe I am clear above. May I know how you are connected wikimedia
 communities? I don't understand that how a man reluctant to edit wikies
 (UL) is so passionate to lead other users from WMIN.
 Fair criticism Praveen and you aren't the first one to ask either.
 Wikimedia, to me, is larger than the just projects and embodies
 philosophies and ideals that I find very dear. Much of my work
 revolves around these ideals and you can read some of it here:
 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/24780

 I have no desire to lead but one to bootstrap a body that is
 supportive of the community - of all of you. I am immaterial in the
 larger scheme of the things and the Chapter should and must be a
 reflection of the community.

 Thank you.
 Fair, But I think not enough :(

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[BalaSundaraRaman]

Shahid,

Please don't see the executive group as an entitlement arising purely out of 
Wiki contributions. Every Wikipedian puts in volunteer effort to the extent 
they can, and we don't do it for any special previlege or quid pro quo, do we? 

The members you see here are merely who were known to have expressed a 
willingness to form a chapter during several meetups during Jimmy and Sue's 
visits. Achal collected such a list from various sources, sent them a 
questionnaire to understand both their Wiki credo as well as commitment and 
other experience required to form and bootstrap such an organisation. There 
were meetings of such a group and then the founding group crystallised. Yes, 
it's not the most scientific method, but what would be an alternative? Is there 
any other basis to pick a group for this assignment? A wiki vote would only 
measure the goodwill inside the respective Wiki. But, doesn't the Wikimedia 
Chapter guideline explicitly outline the need to have people from outside the 
community, but have the commitment and shared beliefs, if they bring in 
organisational expertise? Please reflect on these aspects.

I was part of one earlier attempt to form the India chapter and know of other 
attempts as well. None of our previous attempts succeeded and we were losing a 
lot of opportunities to spread Wiki in India. That is why, I agreed to join 
this kind of a coordinated effort to bootstrap the chapter. This is definitely 
not the end of the road for the chapter, just the beginning. The views of every 
committed Wikipedian will be accommodated and they'll have a fair chance to 
participate in the activities of the chapter. In fact, there are ideas to 
create city-wise and wiki-wise special interest groups.

And, please have a look at the list of people mentioned and say whether we are 
a bunch of politicians who can't be trusted. We are a committed set of people, 
who met every month on a weekend, did conference calls almost every week, and 
brought out this draft meeting Wikimedia Chapters' Committe recommendations and 
the Indian Law, not an easy task.

The choice of Bangalore was for two reasons: 1) this is one city which has 
people from many Indian language Wikipedias and 2) Centre for Internet and 
Society who's hosting this organisation in the bootstrapping phase is located 
here. Other than that, this is not Bangalore-centric or English Wiki-centric. 
There's enough diversity in the group if you care to observe.

I hope you'll understand the points.

Regards,
Sundar

 That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture





From: Shahid Akhtar mohd.shahid_akh...@rediffmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 12:47:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:

K. Then who is Kiruba Shankar?  What
 was the election process  criteria? How many people involved in 
that? Why all these process were hidden? Why even Hindi not informed?
This is what I'm wondering about too! I think this process should be more 
inclusive and transparent!

Who decided the list of founding members (Signatories) mentioned on this page 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA#WIKIMEDIA_INDIA? And how was 
this list decided? How come Gautam K John (who is self-admittedly not involved 
with Wikipedia) was invited to be a founding member, but someone like 
User:Bhadani was not?

Why is some like HPN who has not made even 100 edits in 2009 and 2010 to 
English, 
Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedias combined together is at the forefront of this 
initiative, but some of the most important contributors from Indic wikipedias 
are not even a part of this?

I'm all for a Wikimedia India chapter, but it should be a group of 
all the people who are actually part of the Wikipedia community! It should not 
be a bunch of politicians that want to be face of Wikipedia to the Indian media 
without having made any substantial contributions to Wikipedia.

Wikimedia India will receive thousands of rupees in donations. We need trusted 
people who are representative of the pan-India Wikipedia community to handle it.

If this is a group of people who are meeting in Bangalore for wining and 
dining, this should be named Wikimedia Bangalore chapter, not Wikipedia 
INDIA chapter!

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Brother Shahid, thanks for your comments, but for the record (and for 
any other Indian Wikipedians who want to get things off their chest like 
he did) please direct your criticism at me in the future, not the folks 
who have worked incredibly hard over the last year to fashion the 
bye-laws you see on Meta.

I've been on the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation since its 
inception, towards the end of 2006. Like you, I'm an admirer and 
supporter of the mission of Wikipedia, and of the work of the Wikimedia 
Foundation. Over time, and with much subsequent interest from various 
people within Wikimedia, it became clear that the lack of an Indian 
chapter was an obstacle. An obstacle for Wikipedians like you; an 
obstacle that prevented people in India from doing everything they could 
to help Wikipedia grow. As there were several Wikipedians who wanted to 
form a chapter but were seemingly unable to, between 2008 and 2009, I 
contacted anyone who had previously expressed an interest in setting up 
an Indian chapter. These are people who had interacted here on 
WikimediaIndia-l, and also on meta, or who had written in to Cary Bass 
at the Wikimedia Foundation in his capacity as volunteer coordinator. 
The folks whose names you now see on the Indian chapter bye-laws are 
those who stepped up from among a vast list to give roughly one year of 
their time - a couple of hours a day, several hours a week, to make this 
happen.

Was the process perfect? No. But was it a fair process, given the 
options and constraints? Yes. Is the group of people that drafted the 
MoA perfectly representative of the Indian Wikipedian community? No. But 
are they as representative as was possible? Yes. Personally (and 
everyone who has been associated with the Indian chapter will agree) I 
don't believe we have enough Wikipedians from North India, or North-East 
India; I also don't believe we have enough female Indian Wikipedians on 
board. This is a pity; but this is also an opportunity, as long as it's 
stated upfront - as I have in several emails to this list before - for 
both increasing membership to the chapter from specific regions and from 
women, and for reconstituting the legally required stewards of this 
process from time to time with appropriately representative members. I 
appreciate you pointing out the flaws. But I don't appreciate you 
assuming that no one had considered these flaws before. And I would 
appreciate you participating in a manner that can correct the imbalances 
that exist in the ensuing Wikimedia India chapter, now and later.

The process, as you will understand, is complicated and there have been 
several ups and downs. ChapCom (the Chapters Committee) has stringent 
requirements; Indian tax law is complicated and rigorous to say the 
least. This process also required money to host people from various 
different cities in one place for a meeting, to hire an accountant, to 
get constant legal and tax advice - and the organisation that stepped up 
to fill this gap is a new and vibrant non-profit called the Centre for 
Internet and Society (www.cis-india.org). We're now at that lucky stage 
when our rules comply with everyone concerned. What the rules need, 
however, is your input.

Now, while I appreciate your concern and criticism, can I ask you in 
turn, why it is so easy to lash out with no restraint and so hard to 
actually contribute positively? I don't see your input on the India 
strategy (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/India). I can't 
see your input on meta 
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA). And this is 
despite numerous messages, announcements and entreaties for 
contribution. Everything I've written here in this email, I've written 
before to WikimediaIndia-l, so this is not new, but you don't seem to 
have been reading your messages. And you must start doing so.

There are several thousands of Wikipedians in India who want to help, 
and not all of them are prolific editors, indeed some of them help in 
other ways, and we should welcome them all, while realising the 
invaluable role that editors play in making this thing we love. You are 
scaring them away - and I am pointing this out because I don't think you 
want to; you wouldn't be on this list if you didn't want to help make 
Wikimedia better.

I ask that you please join us in this exciting new phase for Wikimedia 
in India. Like you, I plan to apply for membership of the society as 
soon as the India chapter commences, and like you - I hope - I plan to 
submit my ideas on what the India chapter should do. Perhaps we will 
even meet in person. I'm actually very fond of wining and dining, and it 
would be my pleasure to show you some hospitality in the Wikimedia way: 
I promise to buy you a plate of idlis and a glass of water the next time 
we're in the same city.

Best wishes,
Achal

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[CherianTinu Abraham]

Thatz a great idea. Let us talk ! Please try to attend both the IRC chat
today and Bangalore Meetup tommorrow.

The primary discussion will be regarding WikiMedia India chapter formation .
Please maintain the etiquettes of the discussion.

- Tinu Cherian

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Can we have a IRC on this topic ?
 Proposed time : Today, 8 pm (March 13, 2010), IST
 Join on : irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India#IRC

 Thanks,
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[guru brahma]

Hi,

I am personally opposed to IRC both on principle and practical considerations. 
On principle, IRC chat is lost to posterity and future arguments cannot be 
resolved - as far as my understanding goes, Meta is and has to be the only 
forum for discussions for the Chapters Committee to take consideration. An 
additional advantage with Meta is that the discussions need not be synchronic, 
thus naturally overcoming the barriers of time and geography. Practically 
speaking, I work from an office computer on which IRC has been disabled and I 
do not have admin privileges. 

@Tinu: Is the discussion in Bangalore meet-up tomorrow going to be with respect 
to WikiMedia India chapter formation? What exactly would be the agenda? It 
would help to have an agenda so that we can all come prepared. As far as I 
understand, the discussion on MoA of the proposed chapter ends EoD Saturday, 
that is today.

Cheers,
Srinivas Gunta.
Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma





From: CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Sat, 13 March, 2010 8:45:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

Thatz a great idea. Let us talk ! Please try to attend both the IRC chat today 
and Bangalore Meetup tommorrow. 

The primary discussion will be regarding WikiMedia India chapter formation . 
Please maintain the etiquettes of the discussion. 

- Tinu Cherian


On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

Can we have a IRC on this topic ?
Proposed time : Today, 8 pm (March 13, 2010), IST
Join on : irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India#IRC

Thanks,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[BalaSundaraRaman]

Hi Naveen,

Good idea. However, I may not be online at that time.
Will catch up during tomorrow's meetup.

- Sundar

 That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture





From: Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 7:37:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

Can we have a IRC on this topic ?
Proposed time : Today, 8 pm (March 13, 2010), 
Join on : irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India#IRC

Thanks,
Naveen Francis



On 12 March 2010 13:51, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:


Shahid,

Please don't see the executive group as an entitlement arising purely out of 
Wiki contributions. Every Wikipedian puts in volunteer effort to the extent 
they can, and we don't do it for any special previlege or quid pro quo, do we? 

The members you see here are merely who were known to have expressed a 
willingness to form a chapter during several meetups during Jimmy and Sue's 
visits. Achal collected such a list from various sources, sent them a 
questionnaire to understand both their Wiki credo as well as commitment and 
other experience required to form and bootstrap such an organisation. There 
were meetings of such a group and then the founding group crystallised. Yes, 
it's not the most scientific method, but what would be an
 alternative? Is there any other basis to pick a group for this assignment? A 
 wiki vote would only measure the goodwill inside the respective Wiki. But, 
 doesn't the Wikimedia Chapter guideline explicitly outline the need to have 
 people from outside the community, but have the commitment and shared 
 beliefs, if they bring in organisational expertise? Please reflect on these 
 aspects.

I was part of one earlier attempt to form the India chapter and know of other 
attempts as well. None of our previous attempts succeeded and we were losing a 
lot of opportunities to spread Wiki in India. That is why, I agreed to join 
this kind of a coordinated effort to bootstrap the chapter. This is definitely 
not the end of the road for the chapter, just the beginning. The views of 
every committed Wikipedian will be accommodated and they'll have a fair chance 
to participate in the activities of the chapter. In fact, there are ideas to 
create city-wise and wiki-wise
 special interest groups.

And, please have a look at the list of people mentioned and say whether we are 
a bunch of politicians who can't be trusted. We are a committed set of people, 
who met every month on a weekend, did conference calls almost every week, and 
brought out this draft meeting Wikimedia Chapters' Committe recommendations 
and the Indian Law, not an easy task.

The choice of Bangalore was for two reasons: 1) this is one city which has 
people from many Indian language Wikipedias and 2) Centre for Internet and 
Society who's hosting this organisation in the bootstrapping phase is located 
here. Other than that, this is not Bangalore-centric or English Wiki-centric. 
There's enough diversity in the group if you care to observe.

I hope you'll understand the points.


Regards,
Sundar

 That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
 the expression of thought, is a truth
 generally admitted.
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture






From: Shahid Akhtar mohd.shahid_akh...@rediffmail.com

To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Fri, March 12, 2010 12:47:04 PM

Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter


On
 Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:


K. Then who is Kiruba Shankar?  What
 was the election process  criteria? How many people involved in 
that? Why all these process were hidden? Why even Hindi not informed?
This is what I'm wondering about too! I think this process should be more 
inclusive and transparent!

Who decided the list of founding members (Signatories) mentioned on this page 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA#WIKIMEDIA_INDIA? And how 
was this list decided? How come Gautam K John (who is self-admittedly not 
involved with Wikipedia) was invited to be a founding member, but someone like 
User:Bhadani was not?

Why is some like HPN who has not made even 100 edits in 2009 and 2010 to
 English, 
Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedias combined together is at the forefront of
 this initiative, but some of the most important contributors from Indic
 wikipedias are not even a part of this?

I'm all for a Wikimedia India chapter, but it should be a group of 
all the people who are actually part of the Wikipedia community! It should not 
be a bunch of politicians that want to be face of Wikipedia to the Indian 
media without having made any substantial

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[Naveen Francis]

Personally I think we must have maximum discussion whether it through
mailing list, IRC channel, Bangalore or Kerala meetups. Till now in the
mailing list we had only discussion about the signatories part. I hope in
the IRC we will have more topics to discuss  which are in
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA



On 13 March 2010 09:23, guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in wrote:

 Hi,

 I am personally opposed to IRC both on principle and practical
 considerations. On principle, IRC chat is lost to posterity and future
 arguments cannot be resolved - as far as my understanding goes, Meta is and
 has to be the only forum for discussions for the Chapters Committee to take
 consideration. An additional advantage with Meta is that the discussions
 need not be synchronic, thus naturally overcoming the barriers of time and
 geography. Practically speaking, I work from an office computer on which IRC
 has been disabled and I do not have admin privileges.

 @Tinu: Is the discussion in Bangalore meet-up tomorrow going to be with
 respect to WikiMedia India chapter formation? What exactly would be the
 agenda? It would help to have an agenda so that we can all come prepared. As
 far as I understand, the discussion on MoA of the proposed chapter ends EoD
 Saturday, that is today.

  Cheers,
 Srinivas Gunta.
 Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma

  --
 *From:* CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com

 *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 *Sent:* Sat, 13 March, 2010 8:45:45 AM

 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

 Thatz a great idea. Let us talk ! Please try to attend both the IRC chat
 today and Bangalore Meetup tommorrow.

 The primary discussion will be regarding WikiMedia India chapter formation
 . Please maintain the etiquettes of the discussion.

 - Tinu Cherian

 On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.comwrote:

 Can we have a IRC on this topic ?
 Proposed time : Today, 8 pm (March 13, 2010), IST

 Join on : irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India#IRC

 Thanks,
 Naveen Francis



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[Hari Prasad Nadig]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Shahid Akhtar 
mohd.shahid_akh...@rediffmail.com wrote:

 Why is some like HPN who has not made even 100 edits in 2009 and 2010 to
 English, Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedias combined together is at the
 forefront of this initiative, but some of the most important contributors
 from Indic wikipedias are not even a part of this?


While responses from many people to your email must have cleared up that the
edit count wasn't the criterion for the initial crew, what is the sanctity
in mentioning edit counts from just the last one year?

If you look carefully my edit counts on several projects and overall
contribution have been more substantial than the convenient numbers you have
projected out of the last one year. I've been involved in the projects for
last 6 years now, with contribution in various roles - including one as a
member at Chapters committee. The barn stars, the press quotes of events
I've organized, the articles I've written on media and the projects I've
been involved in surrounding wiki speak of my work here.

I would therefore be compelled to ask - do the edit counts (whether present
or past ones irrespective of whether it is substantial or not) solely speak
of all the Wiki related activity I've spent time on? Does it speak of the
innumerable hours I've spent as part of the EC? Does it speak of the
countless hours I've spent on improving Kannada Wikipedia and related
projects?

Many people in the community know me by my work surrounding Kannada language
projects, in bringing together people from Indian language projects and on
Unicode, Indic Computing apart from advocacy. If there was one time I have
not really been in the forefront of process of setting up a chapter - that
would be this time. I have coordinated all the earlier attempts except the
last one (although I was very much part of the last one as well). Please dig
up information before maligning any contributor with convenient split up of
stats on a public mailing list or before resorting to a personal attack. You
should know better to read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks

The last few years I've been more active in Wiki work other actual editing.
I believe that it is as important to the growth of the community as is the
activity that can be measured by stats on the projects. It is important that
we start giving importance to every role that contributes to the community
other than just the scalable activity in terms of edits.
-- 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[Naveen Francis]

One more thing ... Have we forwarded the draft of MoA to all Indic language
wikipedia groups ?
If not, we must extend the date for comments.

PS: Draft MoA was forwarded to ml and sa wikigroups today.


On 13 March 2010 10:12, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

 Personally I think we must have maximum discussion whether it through
 mailing list, IRC channel, Bangalore or Kerala meetups. Till now in the
 mailing list we had only discussion about the signatories part. I hope in
 the IRC we will have more topics to discuss  which are in
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA



 On 13 March 2010 09:23, guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in wrote:

 Hi,

 I am personally opposed to IRC both on principle and practical
 considerations. On principle, IRC chat is lost to posterity and future
 arguments cannot be resolved - as far as my understanding goes, Meta is and
 has to be the only forum for discussions for the Chapters Committee to take
 consideration. An additional advantage with Meta is that the discussions
 need not be synchronic, thus naturally overcoming the barriers of time and
 geography. Practically speaking, I work from an office computer on which IRC
 has been disabled and I do not have admin privileges.

 @Tinu: Is the discussion in Bangalore meet-up tomorrow going to be with
 respect to WikiMedia India chapter formation? What exactly would be the
 agenda? It would help to have an agenda so that we can all come prepared. As
 far as I understand, the discussion on MoA of the proposed chapter ends EoD
 Saturday, that is today.

  Cheers,
 Srinivas Gunta.
 Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma

  --
 *From:* CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com

 *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 *Sent:* Sat, 13 March, 2010 8:45:45 AM

 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

 Thatz a great idea. Let us talk ! Please try to attend both the IRC chat
 today and Bangalore Meetup tommorrow.

 The primary discussion will be regarding WikiMedia India chapter formation
 . Please maintain the etiquettes of the discussion.

 - Tinu Cherian

 On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.comwrote:

 Can we have a IRC on this topic ?
 Proposed time : Today, 8 pm (March 13, 2010), IST

 Join on : irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India#IRC

 Thanks,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[arjuna rao chavala]

I will join.

Thanks
Arjun

2010/3/13 Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com

 Can we have a IRC on this topic ?
 Proposed time : Today, 8 pm (March 13, 2010),
 Join on : irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India#IRC

 Thanks,
 Naveen Francis


 On 12 March 2010 13:51, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Shahid,

 Please don't see the executive group as an entitlement arising purely out
 of Wiki contributions. Every Wikipedian puts in volunteer effort to the
 extent they can, and we don't do it for any special previlege or quid pro
 quo, do we?

 The members you see here are merely who were known to have expressed a
 willingness to form a chapter during several meetups during Jimmy and Sue's
 visits. Achal collected such a list from various sources, sent them a
 questionnaire to understand both their Wiki credo as well as commitment and
 other experience required to form and bootstrap such an organisation. There
 were meetings of such a group and then the founding group crystallised. Yes,
 it's not the most scientific method, but what would be an alternative? Is
 there any other basis to pick a group for this assignment? A wiki vote would
 only measure the goodwill inside the respective Wiki. But, doesn't the
 Wikimedia Chapter guideline explicitly outline the need to have people from
 outside the community, but have the commitment and shared beliefs, if they
 bring in organisational expertise? Please reflect on these aspects.

 I was part of one earlier attempt to form the India chapter and know of
 other attempts as well. None of our previous attempts succeeded and we were
 losing a lot of opportunities to spread Wiki in India. That is why, I agreed
 to join this kind of a coordinated effort to bootstrap the chapter. This is
 definitely not the end of the road for the chapter, just the beginning. The
 views of every committed Wikipedian will be accommodated and they'll have a
 fair chance to participate in the activities of the chapter. In fact, there
 are ideas to create city-wise and wiki-wise special interest groups.

 And, please have a look at the list of people mentioned and say whether we
 are a bunch of politicians who can't be trusted. We are a committed set of
 people, who met every month on a weekend, did conference calls almost every
 week, and brought out this draft meeting Wikimedia Chapters' Committe
 recommendations and the Indian Law, not an easy task.

 The choice of Bangalore was for two reasons: 1) this is one city which has
 people from many Indian language Wikipedias and 2) Centre for Internet and
 Society who's hosting this organisation in the bootstrapping phase is
 located here. Other than that, this is not Bangalore-centric or English
 Wiki-centric. There's enough diversity in the group if you care to observe.

 I hope you'll understand the points.


 Regards,
 Sundar

 That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
 for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
 - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture


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 *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 *Sent:* Fri, March 12, 2010 12:47:04 PM

 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 K. Then who is Kiruba Shankar?  What was the election process  criteria?
 How many people involved in that? Why all these process were hidden? Why
 even Hindi not informed?


 This is what I'm wondering about too! I think this process should be more
 inclusive and transparent!

 Who decided the list of founding members (Signatories) mentioned on this
 page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA#WIKIMEDIA_INDIA?
 And how was this list decided? How come Gautam K John (who is
 self-admittedly not involved with Wikipedia) was invited to be a founding
 member, but someone like User:Bhadani was not?

 Why is some like HPN who has not made even 100 edits in 2009 and 2010 to
 English, Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedias combined together is at the
 forefront of this initiative, but some of the most important contributors
 from Indic wikipedias are not even a part of this?

 I'm all for a Wikimedia India chapter, but it should be a group of all the
 people who are actually part of the Wikipedia community! It should not be a
 bunch of politicians that want to be face of Wikipedia to the Indian media
 without having made any substantial contributions to Wikipedia.

 Wikimedia India will receive thousands of rupees in donations. We need
 trusted people who are representative of the pan-India Wikipedia community
 to handle it.

 If this is a group of people who are meeting in Bangalore for wining and
 dining, this should be named Wikimedia Bangalore chapter, not Wikipedia
 INDIA chapter!

 Best regards
 Shahid


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[BalaSundaraRaman]

I posted a notice in Tamil Wiki Village Pump, Arjun and Gurubrahma have posted 
in Telugu mailing lists, and Arun has posted in the English Wiki Indian 
noticeboard. Hope other language wikipedians would also be following this thread

- Sundar
 That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for 
the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture





From: Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 11:48:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

One more thing ... Have we forwarded the draft of MoA to all Indic language 
wikipedia groups ?
If not, we must extend the date for comments.

PS: Draft MoA was forwarded to ml and sa wikigroups today. 



On 13 March 2010 10:12, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:


Personally I think we must have maximum discussion whether it through mailing 
list, IRC channel, Bangalore or Kerala meetups. Till now in the mailing list 
we had only discussion about the signatories part. I hope in the IRC we will 
have more topics to discuss  which are in 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA 




On 13 March 2010 09:23, guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in wrote:

Hi,
 
I am personally opposed to IRC both on principle and practical 
considerations. On principle, IRC chat is lost to posterity and future 
arguments cannot be resolved - as far as my understanding goes, Meta is and 
has to be the only forum for discussions for the Chapters Committee to take 
consideration. An additional advantage with Meta is that the discussions need 
not be synchronic, thus naturally overcoming the barriers of time and 
geography. Practically speaking, I work from an office computer on which IRC 
has been disabled and I do not have admin privileges. 
 
@Tinu: Is the discussion in Bangalore meet-up tomorrow going to be with 
respect to WikiMedia India chapter formation? What exactly would be the 
agenda? It would help to have an agenda so that we can all come prepared. As 
far as I understand, the discussion on MoA of the proposed chapter ends EoD 
Saturday, that is today.
 
Cheers,
Srinivas Gunta.
Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma





 From: CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com

To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Sat, 13 March, 2010 8:45:45 AM

Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

Thatz a great idea. Let us talk ! Please try to attend both the IRC chat 
today and Bangalore Meetup tommorrow. 

The primary discussion will be regarding WikiMedia India chapter formation . 
Please maintain the etiquettes of the discussion. 

- Tinu Cherian


On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote:

Can we have a IRC on this topic ?
Proposed time : Today, 8 pm (March 13, 2010), IST


Join on : irc://irc.freenode.org/wikimedia-in

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India#IRC

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[Shiju Alex]

I request all the current committee members to *at least create a user
page*in MetaWiki (
http://meta.wikimedia.org). If you could mention your home wiki and your
contributions to WikiMedia foundation wiki projects (both inside and *outside
wiki*) there, that will enlighten many of us.

Shiju


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.comwrote:


 I am very happy and proud to hear that we got a wikimedia indic chapter.

 But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a community
 (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing list, but I didn't
 hear anything about such an active effort (may be i missed). Is there any
 separate communication medium? Or is this a special chapter for wikimedia
 English projects?

 I recently learned someone as wikimedia indic chapter director from
 linkedin (http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba). He is also being CEO,
 Founder, Co-Founder, Director of many other initiatives (Actually I don't
 have any problem about that).  I am thinking about that election process and
 members. I am sorry but frankly I don't know any of other guys also. If
 possible introduce them, and their home wiki. I wish, an informed community
 about any further steps.

 If someone can clarify my thoughts originated from poor knowledge, I'll be
 more happy.

 PraveenP


 Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:

 Dear all,

 As Srikanth has already noticed in an earlier e-mail, the draft
 Memoranda of Association for the proposed Wikimedia India Chapter has
 been put up on Meta here:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA

 Even as the team working on the current draft has spent the better
 part of a year working on it, I am sure that there would be scope for
 improvement. Please provide your invaluable comments and suggestions
 on the relevant talk 
 page:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA.

 However, given the time we have spent on the document, it is important
 that we proceed quickly and hence, I suggest that the comments be made
 on or before this Saturday, the 13th of March 2010. Let us maintain
 the Wiki-etiquette expected out of us during the discussion.

 People curious about the earlier and the current efforts at forming
 the India chapter may find my blog post on 
 it,http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563 a complimenting
 read. More on Wikimedia India chapter can be seen 
 onhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India.

 Let us look forward to a great response in discussing and debating the
 MoA of the proposed Wikimedia India chapter.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

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Dear Praveen,Since I'm one of the people involved, let me introduce myself:I'm an editor at English and Tamil Wikipedias for around 6 years, though recently I'm mainly active in Tamil Wikipedia alone. My username on either wikis is 'Sundar'. I am a bureaucrat in Tamil Wiki and an admin in the English Wiki. My edit contributions are at http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundardbname=tawiki_p and http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundardbname=enwiki_p Besides these, I wrote a bot for exporting
 over 1 lakh dictionary entries to Tamil Wiktionary and ran it with the help of Ravishankar. I have also participated in several outreach efforts and volunteered with MediaWiki localisation. I presented a paper at Wikimania 2009. ( http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:217 )As for your other concerns, we'll send out a separate email outlining the process. For now, you can check the post by HPN at http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563Regards,Sundar"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the _expression_ of thought, is a truth generally admitted."- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award LectureFrom: Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.comTo: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.orgSent: Thu, March 11, 2010 3:24:53 PMSubject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter



  


I am very happy and proud to hear that we got a wikimedia indic chapter.

But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a
community (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing
list, but I didn't hear anything about such an active effort (may be i
missed). Is there any separate communication medium? Or is this a
special chapter for wikimedia English projects?

I recently learned someone as wikimedia indic chapter director from
linkedin (http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba).
He is also being CEO,
Founder, Co-Founder, Director of many other initiatives (Actually I
don't have any problem about that). I am thinking about that election
process and members. I am sorry but
frankly I don't know any of other guys also. If possible introduce
them, and their home wiki. I wish, an informed community about any
further steps.

If someone can clarify my thoughts originated from poor knowledge, I'll
be more happy. 

PraveenP

Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:

  Dear all,As Srikanth has already noticed in an earlier e-mail, the draftMemoranda of Association for the proposed Wikimedia India Chapter hasbeen put up on Meta here:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoAEven as the team working on the current draft has spent the betterpart of a year working on it, I am sure that there would be scope forimprovement. Please provide your invaluable comments and suggestionson the relevant talk page:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA.However, given the time we have spent on the document, it is importantthat we proceed quickly and hence, I suggest that the comments be madeon or before this Saturday, the 13th of March 2010. Let us
 maintainthe Wiki-etiquette expected out of us during the discussion.People curious about the earlier and the current efforts at formingthe India chapter may find my blog post on it,http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563 a complimentingread. More on Wikimedia India chapter can be seen onhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India.Let us look forward to a great response in discussing and debating theMoA of the proposed Wikimedia India chapter.--Hari Prasad Nadighttp://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadighttp://flickr.com/hpnadig___Wikimediaindia-l mailing listWikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[Shiju Alex]

 They already have their user pages on meta wiki, *don't they? *



Yes, I could see red links.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA

Shiju

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.comwrote:



 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:

 I request all the current committee members to *at least create a user
 page* in MetaWiki (http://meta.wikimedia.org). If you could mention your
 home wiki and your contributions to WikiMedia foundation wiki projects (both
 inside and *outside wiki*) there, that will enlighten many of us.


 They already have their user pages on meta wiki, don't they? If you track
 closely the edits, you'll get to their user pages.

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[arjuna rao chavala]

Hi,
I created a page but was not able to hyperlink from the MOA page.
Here is
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arjunaraoc

Thanks
Arjun

2010/3/11 Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com

 They already have their user pages on meta wiki, *don't they? *



 Yes, I could see red links.
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA

 Shiju

 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.comwrote:



 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote:

 I request all the current committee members to *at least create a user
 page* in MetaWiki (http://meta.wikimedia.org). If you could mention your
 home wiki and your contributions to WikiMedia foundation wiki projects (both
 inside and *outside wiki*) there, that will enlighten many of us.


 They already have their user pages on meta wiki, don't they? If you track
 closely the edits, you'll get to their user pages.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[Praveen Prakash]

I don't consider members or membership. I am not devaluing commitment
or hardwork. I
am thinking about lack of openness. You guys must know (may know well)
the level of Indic language involvement in meta. Why didn't this list?
besides I've not seen any comment about a Wikimedia Indic Chapter in
linked meta-talkpages also.

And that linkedin page made me to believe there is something
subterranean


BalaSundaraRaman wrote:
-- 


  
  Dear
Praveen,
  
  

No need to address me, you people are supposed to communicate the
community ;)

  Since
I'm one of the people involved, let me introduce myself:
  
  I'm an editor at English and Tamil Wikipedias for around 6
years, though recently I'm mainly active in Tamil Wikipedia alone. My
username on either wikis is 'Sundar'. I am a bureaucrat in Tamil Wiki
and an admin in the English Wiki. My edit contributions are at http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundardbname=tawiki_p
and http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundardbname=enwiki_p
Besides these, I wrote a bot for exporting over 1 lakh dictionary
entries to Tamil Wiktionary and ran it with the help of Ravishankar. I
have also participated in several outreach efforts and volunteered with
MediaWiki localisation. I presented a paper at Wikimania 2009. ( http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:217
)
  
  As for your other concerns, we'll send out a separate email
outlining the process. For now, you can check the post by HPN at http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563
  
Regards,
Sundar
  
"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a
medium for the _expression_ of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
  
  
  
  
  From:
Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com
  To:
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Sent: Thu, March 11,
2010 3:24:53 PM
  Subject: Re:
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter
  
  
I am very happy and proud to hear that we got a wikimedia indic chapter.
  
But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a
community (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing
list, but I didn't hear anything about such an active effort (may be i
missed). Is there any separate communication medium? Or is this a
special chapter for wikimedia English projects?
  
  I recently learned someone as wikimedia indic chapter director
from
linkedin (http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba).
He is also being CEO,
Founder, Co-Founder, Director of many other initiatives (Actually I
don't have any problem about that). I am thinking about that election
process and members. I am sorry but
frankly I don't know any of other guys also. If possible introduce
them, and their home wiki. I wish, an informed community about any
further steps.
  
If someone can clarify my thoughts originated from poor knowledge, I'll
be more happy. 
  
PraveenP
  
Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
  
Dear all,

As Srikanth has already noticed in an earlier e-mail, the draft
Memoranda of Association for the proposed Wikimedia India Chapter has
been put up on Meta here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA

Even as the team working on the current draft has spent the better
part of a year working on it, I am sure that there would be scope for
improvement. Please provide your invaluable comments and suggestions
on the relevant talk page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA.

However, given the time we have spent on the document, it is important
that we proceed quickly and hence, I suggest that the comments be made
on or before this Saturday, the 13th of March 2010. Let us
 maintain
the Wiki-etiquette expected out of us during the discussion.

People curious about the earlier and the current efforts at forming
the India chapter may find my blog post on it,
http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563 a complimenting
read. More on Wikimedia India chapter can be seen on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India.

Let us look forward to a great response in discussing and debating the
MoA of the proposed Wikimedia India chapter.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[Shiju Alex]

It will be good if all the other committee members introduce
themselves to *Indic
language* wiki community.


Shiju

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Dear Praveen,

 Since I'm one of the people involved, let me introduce myself:

 I'm an editor at English and Tamil Wikipedias for around 6 years, though
 recently I'm mainly active in Tamil Wikipedia alone. My username on either
 wikis is 'Sundar'. I am a bureaucrat in Tamil Wiki and an admin in the
 English Wiki. My edit contributions are at
 http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundardbname=tawiki_phttp://toolserver.org/%7Einteriot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundardbname=tawiki_pand
 http://toolserver.org/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundardbname=enwiki_phttp://toolserver.org/%7Einteriot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=sundardbname=enwiki_pBesides
  these, I wrote a bot for exporting over 1 lakh dictionary entries to
 Tamil Wiktionary and ran it with the help of Ravishankar. I have also
 participated in several outreach efforts and volunteered with MediaWiki
 localisation. I presented a paper at Wikimania 2009. (
 http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:217 )

 As for your other concerns, we'll send out a separate email outlining the
 process. For now, you can check the post by HPN at
 http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563

 Regards,

 Sundar

 That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
 for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
 - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture


 --
 *From:* Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com

 *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 *Sent:* Thu, March 11, 2010 3:24:53 PM

 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter


 I am very happy and proud to hear that we got a wikimedia indic chapter.

 But I wonder why all these activities taken so hidden? We are a community
 (or a community of communities), we've an active mailing list, but I didn't
 hear anything about such an active effort (may be i missed). Is there any
 separate communication medium? Or is this a special chapter for wikimedia
 English projects?

 I recently learned someone as wikimedia indic chapter director from
 linkedin (http://in.linkedin.com/in/kiruba). He is also being CEO,
 Founder, Co-Founder, Director of many other initiatives (Actually I don't
 have any problem about that).  I am thinking about that election process and
 members. I am sorry but frankly I don't know any of other guys also. If
 possible introduce them, and their home wiki. I wish, an informed community
 about any further steps.

 If someone can clarify my thoughts originated from poor knowledge, I'll be
 more happy.

 PraveenP

 Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:

 Dear all,

 As Srikanth has already noticed in an earlier e-mail, the draft
 Memoranda of Association for the proposed Wikimedia India Chapter has
 been put up on Meta here:
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA

 Even as the team working on the current draft has spent the better
 part of a year working on it, I am sure that there would be scope for
 improvement. Please provide your invaluable comments and suggestions
 on the relevant talk page:
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA.

 However, given the time we have spent on the document, it is important
 that we proceed quickly and hence, I suggest that the comments be made
 on or before this Saturday, the 13th of March 2010. Let us
  maintain
 the Wiki-etiquette expected out of us during the discussion.

 People curious about the earlier and the current efforts at forming
 the India chapter may find my blog post on it,
 http://hpnadig.net/blog/2010/03/08/wikimedia-india/563 a complimenting
 read. More on Wikimedia India chapter can be seen on
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India.

 Let us look forward to a great response in discussing and debating the
 MoA of the proposed Wikimedia India chapter.
 --
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[guru brahma]

Hi,

I haven't received some of the mails on this mailing list and I had to check 
back on the mail server to see those mails - the two mails by Praveen Prakash 
and the reply to one of them from Sundar and two mails from Shiju Alex are the 
ones I can recall quickly. I had to go back to the server as I missed the 
continuity. Does it have to do with some code in the messages? - I could not 
find them even in my bulk/ spam/ trash folders.

Anyway, given that Meta is the coordination project for all Wikimedia projects, 
may I suggest that all the queries be directed at the relevant talkpages on 
Meta? The advantage is that it is easier to search, identify and track through 
history pages and the entire discussion is centralised at one place instead of 
multiple locations like this mailing list, IRC or telephone chats. Another 
advantage is that a user's comments stay there till perpetuity - letting us 
know his/ her perspectives and viewpoints over the years and the evolution 
therein. Hence, I suggest we start discussing the Wikimedia India Chapter at 
either of http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA or 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India. I, for one, would answer 
all the questions put forth to me on that forum.

Thanks for all the support and encouragement.

Cheers,
Srinivas Gunta.
Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma

P.S. It may not be a bad idea for all of us using the mailing list to give our 
primary wikispace or unified login at the end of each message we send - I 
shd probably make it my signature.





From: Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thu, 11 March, 2010 5:31:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

It will be good if all the other committee members introduce themselves to 
Indic language wiki community. 
Shiju,

Most of the members have user pages on the respective Wikipedias and sister 
projects and their work speaks for themselves. I don't think there is a 
necessity for all committee members to separately introduce themselves here on 
this mailing list unless ofcourse they themselves like to. 

I'm also quite surprised at the constant 'bold' or 'highlight' on words on 
emails exchanged this list. 

Nevertheless, people who've not known me till now, can find more about me at:
http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPNadig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPN
http://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPN

More about me is here:
http://hpnadig.net/about

And I also happen to be the moderator of this list. 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter

[guru brahma]

Hi,

after sending this mail, I got the mails that I said were missing except the 
original mail by Praveen Prakash. Strange that newer mails come into the inbox 
before the older mails.

Cheers,
Srinivas Gunta.
Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma




From: guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thu, 11 March, 2010 6:56:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter


Hi,

I haven't received some of the mails on this mailing list and I had to check 
back on the mail server to see those mails - the two mails by Praveen Prakash 
and the reply to one of them from Sundar and two mails from Shiju Alex are the 
ones I can recall quickly. I had to go back to the server as I missed the 
continuity. Does it have to do with some code in the messages? - I could not 
find them even in my bulk/ spam/ trash folders.

Anyway, given that Meta is the coordination project for all Wikimedia projects, 
may I suggest that all the queries be directed at the relevant talkpages on 
Meta? The advantage is that it is easier to search, identify and track through 
history pages and the entire discussion is centralised at one place instead of 
multiple locations like this mailing list, IRC or telephone chats. Another 
advantage is that a user's comments stay there till perpetuity - letting us 
know his/ her perspectives and viewpoints over the years and the evolution 
therein. Hence, I suggest we start discussing the Wikimedia India Chapter at 
either of http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India/MoA or 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India. I, for one, would answer 
all the questions put forth to me on that forum.

Thanks for all the support and encouragement.

Cheers,
Srinivas Gunta.
Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma

P.S. It may not be a bad idea for all of us using the mailing list to give our 
primary wikispace or unified login at the end of each message we send - I 
shd probably make it my signature.





From: Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thu, 11 March, 2010 5:31:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

It will be good if all the other committee members introduce themselves to 
Indic language wiki community. 
Shiju,

Most of the members have user pages on the respective Wikipedias and sister 
projects and their work speaks for themselves. I don't think there is a 
necessity for all committee members to separately introduce themselves here on 
this mailing list unless ofcourse they themselves like to. 

I'm also quite surprised at the constant 'bold' or 'highlight' on words on 
emails exchanged this list. 

Nevertheless, people who've not known me till now, can find more about me at:
http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPNadig
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPN
http://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HPN

More about me is here:
http://hpnadig.net/about

And I also happen to be the moderator of this list. 
-- 
Hari Prasad Nadig 
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