Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Media : Mid-day: Loads of potential in India: Wikipedia

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:36 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > > >> "That headline might have actually ended up getting readers to read the >> news article and help in publicizing in some way." >> > > I agree to that. As some PR folks says, there is nothing like bad or good > publicity . The arti

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] W10: Communications Toolkit Phase I

Pradeep, Determining the first Indian Wikipedian is quite a tricky exercise. Not aware of any easy way to do that. Guess it would be one of the admins who setup a wikipedia in an Indian Language. Or it could be someone who actively contributed to Indian content on the English Wikipedia (this is mo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] W10: Communications Toolkit Phase I

Likely to be an early English Wikipedian from India. Should ask users Arvindn, Hemanshu et al. Arun, was Hemanshu editing before you started? - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.or

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune photos

Thanks Tinu, Sankarshan, for images of Pune Meetup 3. For those who attended, could we have a small brief (or even better a blog post) about what transpired for those who missed the meet? As of now, this is a problem. Meets dont get reported. People forget that the written report of what transpir

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Clarification Regarding Kiruba Shankar's Involvement

> Yours faithfully, > > Wikimedia India EC > BTW, Who are in EC ? :-/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] W10: Communications Toolkit Phase I

Yes, I do believe so. regards Arun On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:17 PM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: > Likely to be an early English Wikipedian from India. Should ask users > Arvindn, Hemanshu et al. > > Arun, was Hemanshu editing before you started? > > - Sundar > > Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android > _

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos

Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010 There were around 18+ attendees for the first Wikimeetup @Kolkata . I would like to express my sincere thanks to Jayanata Nath, Indranil Das Gupta & Shiju Alex for all the efforts in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Clarification Regarding Kiruba Shankar's Involvement

Praveen, Please refer the MOA document published in Meta for details requested: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer I would also suggest you refer the India page for background information: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India

[Wikimediaindia-l] hi ! list

Hi all, Wow! It was a hell of a day seeing and meeting people at Redhat's office for wikipedia stuff. Quite a bit to share but need couple of things. Fortunately or unfortunately didn't have a camera so need photos to spice the post up, a hashtag if there is already one or something please le

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Clarification Regarding Kiruba Shankar's Involvement

On Tuesday 14 December 2010 07:45 PM, Arun Ramarathnam wrote: > Praveen, > > Please refer the MOA document published in Meta for details requested: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer > > I would also suggest you refer the India page for background information: > http://

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune photos

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > For those who attended, could we have a small brief (or even better a > blog post) about what transpired for those who missed the meet? The blog post, more of personal jottings really, was posted along with the photos

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune photos

hi, Thanks for the write-up. Why are these meetings happening in classrooms? The Mumbai one also happened in a lecture hall complete with green board and chalks! There was even a rickety unbalanced table up front that the speakers unconsciously wanted to lean against! I see that Pune has at least

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune photos

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > Thanks for the write-up. Why are these meetings happening in classrooms? The > Mumbai one also happened in a lecture hall complete with green board and > chalks! There was even a rickety unbalanced table up front that the speakers > unco

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune photos

hi, That was meant to be humorous but I guess no one got the point :). Nothing serious. Pradeep On 14 December 2010 22:56, sankarshan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Pradeep Mohandas > wrote: > > > Thanks for the write-up. Why are these meetings happening in classrooms? > The > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune photos

*/* The blog post, more of personal jottings really, was posted along with the photos < http://sankarshan.posterous.com/notes-from-the-pune-wikipedia-meetup> cf. sankarshan mukhopadhyay */* Thanks Sankarshan, wish I was there, if nothing at least for the swag ;-

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune photos

I tweeted a bit for today's techmeet in Pune with the meet hashtag #WPMPN4. http://twitter.com/search?q=%23wpmpn4 On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > */* The blog post, more of personal jottings really, was posted along with > > the photos < > http://sankarshan.posterous.co

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune photos

> > > Actually I depend on the Wikimedia list and WikiProject India/Portal for > news of meetups. I'm sure there are others like me. Could all who have > blogged/posted/placed images about meetups please reflect them on this list > besides other social media such as FB, twitter, identi.ca etc. > H

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup 3 Pune

started? - Sundar Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20101214/1fe2f0ec/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 2 Date: Tue,

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Meetup on Saturday- leaving at 2:30

Hi folks, Unfortunately my flight out of Bangalore leaves at 520 on Saturday, so I am planning to leave the city around 230. The meetup on Saturday is currently scheduled for 3PM. I'd hate to miss all of it, so I hope some folks can make it early. I will plan to be there at 130 or so. This only a

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia usage and contribution from Indian users

Dear All, I need to write about Wikipedia in India. Need to know about access and content creation with an Indian angle. Are Indian surfers using Wiki a lot? Any statistics would help (growth over past few years) Similarly do Indians create/contribute content? What is your take on Indian langu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia usage and contribution from Indian users

Hi Mahesh: > I need to write about Wikipedia in India. Need to know about access and > content creation with an Indian angle. Are Indian surfers using Wiki a > lot? Any statistics would help (growth over past few years) Some places to start would be: http://stats.wikimedia.org/ and http://stats.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Meetup on Saturday- leaving at 2:30

Hi Erik, We will miss you for the meetup. Anyways I will be coming early for the arrangements , so will meet you when you are there. Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi folks, > > Unfortunately my flight out of Bangalore leaves at 520 on Sat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia usage and contribution from Indian users

Thanks for these links. I will surely publish the piece on my blog ( http://www.mahesh.com ) once the article is published in print. Will intimate the list I look forward for more inputs for other members regards Gautam John wrote:, On 15-12-2010 AM 10:17: > Hi Mahesh: > >> I need to write ab

[Wikimediaindia-l] Media : Hindustan Times : "Making Wikipedia popular, in Bengali "

Hindustan Times : "Making Wikipedia popular, in Bengali " - article of first Kolkata Wikimeetup on last saturday. http://twitpic.com/3g294a ( click on full size if needed ) The web link is not available yet, I will send it across one I get it. Regards Tinu Cherian ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Media : Hindustan Times : "Making Wikipedia popular, in Bengali "

Tinu, That is nice coverage of the meetup. Kudos to you, Shiju and other wikimedians who made facilitated this event, regards Arun On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:31 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hindustan Times : "Making Wikipedia popular, in Bengali " - article of > first Kolkata Wikimeetup o