Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Swaroop Rao
Hi Vickram, I filled out the scholarship form early this morning (an hour after you posted it). Can I know if the form was submitted successfully? Thanks! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch ) On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 00:36, Vickram Crishna wrote: > > https:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Vickram Crishna
Yes - but please let us not use this list for such private queries. We have a number of submissions, and the form seems to be working fine. If anyone has a general problem with making it work, that is a valid query for this list. We need to step up the availability of the form in different languag

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Ramesh N G
hi What is the expected number of Scholarships? regards User:Rameshng On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Vickram Crishna wrote: > Yes - but please let us not use this list for such private queries. We have > a number of submissions, and the form seems to be working fine. If anyone > has a general

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread wheredevelsdare
Ramesh, We do expect a significant amount of applications though the actual number of scholarships in limited. I cannot give a number at present as it the final number depends on mathematical calculations. The idea is to provide full or partial support to those Wikipedians who really want to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Ramesh N G
Thanks.. On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM, wrote: > Ramesh, > > We do expect a significant amount of applications though the actual number > of scholarships in limited. I cannot give a number at present as it the > final number depends on mathematical calculations. > > The idea is to provide ful

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Swaroop Rao
Oops, meant to send it as a private mail. Sorry for that! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch ) On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 16:52, Ramesh N G wrote: > Thanks.. > > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM, wrote: > >> Ramesh, >> >> We do expect a significant amount o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi all, Speakers(who have applied for the scholarship) please do fill in the submission @ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Speaker_Coordination/Submissions/ This is need for the Speaker Coordination team to select & schedule the talk. Naveen Francis Signature powered

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Scholarships

2011-07-23 Thread Vickram Crishna
:-) On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Swaroop Rao wrote: > Oops, meant to send it as a private mail. Sorry for that! > > > Swaroop Rao > (MikeLynch ) > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 16:52, Ramesh N G wrote: > >> Thanks.. >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 23,

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

2011-07-23 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
*DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion* http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_mumbai-blasts-ajmal-kasab-s-birthday-confusion_1568800 *As Mumbai reeled under shock, despair and anger over being attacked again on July 13, a message started clogging the jammed telephone networks and

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Bangalore Mirror : "Not just the written word"

2011-07-23 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
*Bangalore Mirror : "Not just the written word"* http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/81/20110724201107240043349229ed6f4b5/Not-just-the-written-word.html *Bangalore-based Wikipedians are spearheading an experimental initiative, the Oral Citations Project to overcome the lack of published materia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

2011-07-23 Thread Anirudh Bhati
*“We have started using oral citations for non-controversial content. A tayyam dance form has been documented using such citations of proponents,” says Cherian, who is also at the forefront of creating Wikipedia content in Indian languages. * We have already started using oral citations? anirudh

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

2011-07-23 Thread Ramesh N G
There is one Malayalam articlewhere we already used oral citation User:Rameshng On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > *“We have started using oral citations for non-controversial content. A > tayyam dance form has been documen

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators

2011-07-23 Thread mayur
Added en wiki admins to the list- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_Indic_Admins. Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:21 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Will count Indian Wikipedians in English Wikipedia too ? ;) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IND_EDITS > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators

2011-07-23 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi Mayur, User:Shyamal's name with 36,000+ edits appears to have been left out. http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?name=Shyamal&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia Unless User:Shyam is supposed to be him. In that case the name and contribs are incorrect. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators

2011-07-23 Thread mayur
Hi Ashwin, Sorry for Inconvenience but I have included both Shyam and Shaymal in the list. Perhaps you coundn't see Shyamal at 82th position.This list is based on number of sysop actions by Indic wiki admins not number of edits.BTW Thank you for your attention. With Regards May

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Mumbai blasts: Ajmal Kasab's birthday confusion

2011-07-23 Thread Achal Prabhala
Just to add to this, there are a few articles in each researched language (Malayalam, Hindi, Sepedi) in development, all of which use oral citations, and each of which will be catalogued on the research page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Projects/Oral_Citations (As of now, there are

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators

2011-07-23 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Thanks for the clarification, Mayur. Indian Wikipedias do need lots of loving admin care, but of course not too much or not too closely ;-) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:33 AM, mayur wrote: > Hi Ashwin, >