Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] , [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Nikita, Thanks for your reply. Here's a list of the Wikimedia community's IRC channels: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels In the future, when you have a technical problem with Wikimedia sites, try visiting one of the IRC channels that the developers and system administrators use to coordinate their work, such as #wikimedia-tech . A few of our system administrators are volunteers. There's an incomplete and out-of-date list here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators You asked: How can I help? If you have system administration skills, you can help by getting a Labs account https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs . Labs users talk via the #wikimedia-labs channel on IRC and the labs-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l . Tasks that new system administrators can take on are listed here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs#Proposals and you can learn about the current architecture of Wikimedia's operations infrastructure at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ However, as I mentioned, the system is still under construction and so please don't feel discouraged if there's not much you can do yet. People without system administration skills can help in this particular situation by learning them, or by spreading the word about Wikimedia technical opportunities in general. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 01/31/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:54:51 +0530 From: nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II Message-ID: CAPYgbuP3s=+1pdm-tzuwdsq3j4_ncl7pf69f8_dhwypvkqw...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hii, Thanks for your response. We tried at Wikimedia-in Channel ( wikimedia India). Thank you for the information you mentioned. It will be very helpful to have volunteer system administrations. How can i help? Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 01/30/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com wrote: The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. My sympathies and condolences on this problem! Quick question -- which IRC channels did you go into? If I know more about that, I can help encourage better 24/7 coverage. In the long run, it'll be helpful for Wikimedia to have volunteer system administrators around the world, to increase the chances that someone is online and available and can help you. And maybe you can become a sysadmin yourself! Wikimedia Labs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs is an effort to help grow the Wikimedia system administration community. Check it out. It's in closed beta right now and it is still under construction, but if you ask on the Talk/Discuss page for an invite, you can get one. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] , [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
This sounds like an odd advice starting from someone asking about simultaneous image upload to commons. Nikita, you can use a tool like the commonist for simultaneous upload - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist or ask an admin in #wikimedia-commons I'm not sure why you are promoting Sysadmin access to new individuals who are asking about simultaneous image uploads, I would imagine those are order of magnitude, apart from each other. If you want to offer sysadmin access to new individuals without even a mention of their qualification or even a user account. How can I say anything? Regards Theo On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Nikita, Thanks for your reply. Here's a list of the Wikimedia community's IRC channels: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels In the future, when you have a technical problem with Wikimedia sites, try visiting one of the IRC channels that the developers and system administrators use to coordinate their work, such as #wikimedia-tech . A few of our system administrators are volunteers. There's an incomplete and out-of-date list here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators You asked: How can I help? If you have system administration skills, you can help by getting a Labs account https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs . Labs users talk via the #wikimedia-labs channel on IRC and the labs-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l . Tasks that new system administrators can take on are listed here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs#Proposals and you can learn about the current architecture of Wikimedia's operations infrastructure at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ However, as I mentioned, the system is still under construction and so please don't feel discouraged if there's not much you can do yet. People without system administration skills can help in this particular situation by learning them, or by spreading the word about Wikimedia technical opportunities in general. Thanks! -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation On 01/31/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:54:51 +0530 From: nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II Message-ID: CAPYgbuP3s=+1pdm-tzuwdsq3j4_ncl7pf69f8_dhwypvkqw...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hii, Thanks for your response. We tried at Wikimedia-in Channel ( wikimedia India). Thank you for the information you mentioned. It will be very helpful to have volunteer system administrations. How can i help? Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 01/30/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com wrote: The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. My sympathies and condolences on this problem! Quick question -- which IRC channels did you go into? If I know more about that, I can help encourage better 24/7 coverage. In the long run, it'll be helpful for Wikimedia to have volunteer system administrators around the world, to increase the chances that someone is online and available and can help you. And maybe you can become a sysadmin yourself! Wikimedia Labs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs is an effort to help grow the Wikimedia system administration community. Check it out. It's in closed beta right now and it is still under construction, but if you ask on the Talk/Discuss page for an invite, you can get one. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Hii All, Sorry for not been able to write in detail about the event yesterday. On 28th Morning, the participants arrived exactly at 8am. Few, who could not arrive on time made it a point to inform one of us, about it. We spoke to them about their preference of places to click which went on Good. There after, around 8.45am people dispersed on respective routes. I along with three others covered the extreme north of churchgate( Jogeshwari, Borivali and Dahisar ). While Karthik covered the Chatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalay interiors besides other places and headed to HBCSE for keeping the lab ready for participants with the tool installed. Not many could make it to HBCSE though, owing to the distance. In all there were 10 of us who reached there by 2.30pm. The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. After this, we waited for sometime for the one person's upload to get over and till then the others filled the data for the images. Two people successfully uploaded images using 'Commonist' tool for mass upload. The participants were comfortable with the process absolutely but the problem was when they pressed 'UPLOAD'. It said, There is an 'unknown error'. In order to overcome this, we tried to upload using the basic 5 steps of upload in commons, but it showed the message, 'The files are empty' !!! no idea How and Why this happened..! After trying this, Nagarjuna Sir sat with us for trying Python. And the rest as he mentioned earlier in this thread: while running the script, it cribbed about 'missing module poster'. I have installed it using pip. then another missing dependency was python-pyexiv2. apt-get install python-pyexiv2 took care of this. after that the script ran successfully. Took lot of time in getting the script working though. However we could not run Python on other PCs since by the time it was post 8pm. We could only upload images of 4 people successfully. However this is something to discuss as why the tools did not work as they should have been. Partcipants left the campus by 7.30pm after copying the images on desktop. Big Thanks to Nargarjun Sir for being there with us for the entire time till 9pm in HBCSE and his efforts in upload procedure !! Besides, there are many people who helped in particular stages of the event. Starting Noopur , Pranav, Moksh, Netra, Vickram uncle, Dr.Nagarjuna, Kundan Sir, Aditya and Krutika for attending the event. Also would like to make mention of Ajit Sahu who created the logo for the event with just little briefing. Thanks to ALL ! Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: We seem to be called in to the cop station a bit too often - visit #2 for Wikipedia (1st was for WCI 11), this time it got better, taken in a Police Van to MRA Marg. The worst part, they dont drop you back, you need to make your own way :( The guards at Bombay House were pretty clear, we have orders not to allow photography on Homy Mody Street in front of the building for security reasons. Its odd that such orders are given in the first place, as public roads are not under their purview and we were certainly not trespassing their property. Aditya offered to delete the pics if they could show that its illegal, obviously they could not. Just because they are scared of terror threats, whoever gave the order seems to think they have the right to deny the public of their rights and curtail freedom. Talk about misuse of power. -- From: apsengu...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:17 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II Harriet, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a Prohibited Area, you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We saw quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like anyone can put them up. Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a problem either). Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Hii, Thanks for your response. We tried at Wikimedia-in Channel ( wikimedia India). Thank you for the information you mentioned. It will be very helpful to have volunteer system administrations. How can i help? Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 01/30/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com wrote: The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. My sympathies and condolences on this problem! Quick question -- which IRC channels did you go into? If I know more about that, I can help encourage better 24/7 coverage. In the long run, it'll be helpful for Wikimedia to have volunteer system administrators around the world, to increase the chances that someone is online and available and can help you. And maybe you can become a sysadmin yourself! Wikimedia Labs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs is an effort to help grow the Wikimedia system administration community. Check it out. It's in closed beta right now and it is still under construction, but if you ask on the Talk/Discuss page for an invite, you can get one. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise. ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
How wonderful, I do wish I was there. You guys have done a great job. My personal congrats to each of the participants. Do we have a master list for articles about Mumbai? Does one need to be made? Well begun is half done. Please remember that with all this raw material (images), you now have to make cakes pastries (i.e. better-illustrated articles newly-made stubs). So the process of cooking must now start. Just to remind every-one once again, :) We need to : * categorise the images. * add the images to articles, where possible. * create stubs where necessary and add images to them. Congratulations once again Mumbai community, but don't halt just yet, complete the cycle see Mumbai represented much better in Wikipedia. Bumping this to the Wikiproject India mailing list also. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- -- Forwarded message -- From: Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in from Mumbai , India. wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Harriet, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a Prohibited Area, you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We saw quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like anyone can put them up. Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a problem either). Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTMhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2. The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE. I apologise. ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
We seem to be called in to the cop station a bit too often - visit #2 for Wikipedia (1st was for WCI 11), this time it got better, taken in a Police Van to MRA Marg. The worst part, they dont drop you back, you need to make your own way :( The guards at Bombay House were pretty clear, we have orders not to allow photography on Homy Mody Street in front of the building for security reasons. Its odd that such orders are given in the first place, as public roads are not under their purview and we were certainly not trespassing their property. Aditya offered to delete the pics if they could show that its illegal, obviously they could not. Just because they are scared of terror threats, whoever gave the order seems to think they have the right to deny the public of their rights and curtail freedom. Talk about misuse of power. From: apsengu...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:17 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II Harriet, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a Prohibited Area, you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We saw quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like anyone can put them up. Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a problem either). Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the police station where they explained that they were within their rights to do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures there. 2.The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together at HBCSE
