Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Hi Gautham, Here are two ways: 1. Chapter shall conduct IRC discussions with each langauge community at least once in few months. It is best done one community at a time to give more time and space for each of them. Not all language community members are in India and not all can become chapter me

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Hi Naveen, Srikanth Lakshmanan is already active in Tamil Wikimedia informing about WikiConference India happenings. http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VP will be a good place to leave further messages. Thanks, Ravi On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Naveen Francis wrote: > > Hi Ravi, > > Can we

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 wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at

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

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 sh

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template

Forwarding since it may be relavent. All, I had recently mailed my contact about arranging a Wiki academy, I have just modified few words to templatize it. Please feel free to modify / use for your needs. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy_Proposal_Template -- Regards Srikanth.L -- Reg

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

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

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 F

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template

Srikanth, This is useful. Thanks for sharing. A quick feedback: see if you'd get a chance to post the flier in SVG (so that people are able to modify it). They'd also get to change the background color as required and translate text to local language. Cheers, On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Sr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template

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

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan wrote: > 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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: > Srikanth, > > This is useful. Thanks for sharing. > > A quick feedback: see if you'd get a chance to post the flier in SVG (so > that people are able to modify it). They'd also get to change the background > color as required and translat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template

Agreed to Hari'ssuggestion, please place it in Commons in SVG template please. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: > >> Sri

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Agreed to Hari'ssuggestion, please place it in Commons in SVG template > please. > > I attempted PDF2SVG conversion using inkscape. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiAcademyV1.svg If any people face problems in reusing it, you can r

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template

Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: *I attempted PDF2SVG conversion using inkscape. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiAcademyV1.svg If any people face problems in reusing it, you can reach me for the original .odt. Cheers Arjun * Odt is an open fornat, perhaps you could consider uploading it into

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > > *I attempted PDF2SVG conversion using inkscape. > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiAcademyV1.svg > If any people face problems in reusing it, you can reach me for the > original .odt. > Cheers > Arjun

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference

Dear Ravi: > 1. Chapter shall conduct IRC discussions with each langauge community at > least once in few months. It is best done one community at a time to give > more time and space for each of them. Not all language community members are > in India and not all can become chapter members. This

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteering opportunitiy-Wiki Academy for Department of Public Libraries, Karnataka

I want to join this meet.. what I'll need to do ?? And I want to be a Volunteer ans a part of Wiki family as well! On 24 August 2011 17:16, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > Hi Members and Wikimedia Community in Bangalore, > > I am glad to announce that we are planning for the first Wiki > academy

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteering opportunitiy-Wiki Academy for Department of Public Libraries, Karnataka

On 27 August 2011 22:16, Aadarsh Gupta wrote: > I want to join this meet.. what I'll need to do ?? Thanks, Adarsh. Just a note - the date has changed: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Department_of_Public_Libraries,_Bangalore It is now around the 12th of September. Please sign up on that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteering opportunitiy-Wiki Academy for Department of Public Libraries, Karnataka

Thank You! On 27 August 2011 22:22, Gautam John wrote: > On 27 August 2011 22:16, Aadarsh Gupta wrote: > > > I want to join this meet.. what I'll need to do ?? > > Thanks, Adarsh. Just a note - the date has changed: > > > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Department_of_Public_Libraries,_Ban

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

Hoi, Why not take over Wikilivres from Yann and make it your project. Maybe you can do one better and cooperate with other chapters on this project. There are already main[pages in several languages... Australia and Canada come to mind.. I did blog about it.. http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/20

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

+1 to Gerard's Idea Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Why not take over Wikilivres from Yann and make it your project. Maybe you > can do one better and cooperate with other cha

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

This is relevant to all those who have written to the various lists and asked how one can participate. volunteer or help in any way. We need people to upload images to Wikimedia Commons. - We face a problem in that photographers are willing to go out & shoot and donate images. But they are

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Hi Ashwin, I am interested. Please consider my application. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > This is relevant to all those who have written to the various lists and > asked how one can participate. volunteer or help in any way. > > We need people to upload images to Wikim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Respected Sir/Madam, Greetings from Wikimedia India Chapter. We are pleased to let you know we can arrange a talk/lecture on Wikipedia at your college if you could arrange a lab for 3 hours with some students. Below is the sample call for program and we can structure the agenda based on the below

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Hi Ashutosh, Please confirm that you have the skills to upload images to Commons. Please upload one Creative Commons Attribution required image from Flickr and categorise it and send me the commons page link. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- O

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

There is a bot on commons that scans flickr for copyright free images and uploads them to commons - so those are already there in probability. What I suggest is making a list of missing images (eg. there is a category of requested images in Mumbai, Im sure there must be other such categories re

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Those are great ways to go ahead later. As of now, we need the team to get together so that such things are possible, horses before the cart so to say. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:52 AM, wrote: > There is a bot

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Hello, I think this is a place I can offer my help although I am not related to the India chapter or anything related to it. But as a Commons administrator and OTRS memeber [1], I hope I am eligible for this job. I am usually willing to help whenever I can. Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Welcome WikiTanvir, may this small endeavour be an example of brotherhood on Wikipedia. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Tanvir Rahman wrote: > Hello, > > I think this is a place I can offer my help although I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Hi, I am already doing this for "India loves wikimedia" using Bryan's "Flickr to Commons" tool (http://toolserver.org/~bryan/flickr/upload) - It is one of the easy ways to transfer flickr images to commons using the flickr upload bot. I have identified a few photo streams which are CC BY SA compat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

On 28 August 2011 10:17, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > If you come across any photostreams that have been uploaded to flickr as > part of "India loves wikimedia", please let me know and i will start the > uploading. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=indiaimpressions2011 They are supposed to be under a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Great welcome Bala! Now we are all coming together from our seperate areas of activity. :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > Hi, > > I am already doing this for "India loves wikimedia" u

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

Indeed! Will email Yann and see what we can do. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html On 28 August 2011 00:10, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > +1 to Gerard's Idea > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Gautam, Unfortunately most of the "indiaimpressions2011" images are not tagged CC BY SA. Cant upload them from flickr to commons as the review bot will reject and delete them. I will upload the few that are tagged correctly, but the rest have to be changed by the uploaders. regards Bala On Sun, A

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

On 28 August 2011 10:56, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > Unfortunately most of the "indiaimpressions2011" images are not tagged CC BY > SA. Cant upload them from flickr to commons as the review bot will reject > and delete them. I will upload the few that are tagged correctly, but the > rest have to be c

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

Hi Gautam, I have uploaded eight India impressions 2011 images correctly tagged in flickr to commons. The related category is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:India_Impressions_2011 Will upload the rest, once the licences change to CC regards Bala On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Ga

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for "India Loves Wikipedia" - Outreach

On 28 August 2011 11:30, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > I have uploaded eight India impressions 2011 images correctly tagged in > flickr to commons. The related  category is > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:India_Impressions_2011 Thank you Bala. I'm really hoping that some of these picture

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

Hello, 2011/8/28 Gautam John : > Hi Yann: > > I was wondering if you could send us some details on what it would > take to maintain Wikilivres please? Technology and costs. Wikilivres is currently hosted on a small dedicated server in Montreal, Canada. It follows the Canadian copyright law, in wh

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

On 28 August 2011 11:50, Yann Forget wrote: > Wikilivres is currently hosted on a small dedicated server in Montreal, > Canada. > It follows the Canadian copyright law, in which a work is in the > public domain 50 years after the author's death. Thanks. > It costs 74 US$ monthly, or about 3,50

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011/8/28 Gautam John : > On 28 August 2011 11:50, Yann Forget wrote: > >> Wikilivres is currently hosted on a small dedicated server in Montreal, >> Canada. >> It follows the Canadian copyright law, in which a work is in the >> public domain 50 years after the author's death. > > Thanks. > >> It

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

On 28 August 2011 12:08, Yann Forget wrote: > I see several possibilities: Thank you. Will get back soon on this. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimed