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

Wikimedia India chapter may consider writing to HBCSE, TIFR in Mumbai or TISS in Mumbai to host a facility explaining why and how they can do this.  gnowledge lab of HBCSE will be glad to maintain the archive once an understanding between the chapter and HBCSE is worked out. bandwidth, disk space a

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

Hi! I'm interested to take part in this and want to be a volunteer, can you pl. forward me the link like where I need to apply and need to fill all the related data! Thanks! On 28 August 2011 08:50, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > This is relevant to all those who have written to the various lists and

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

Hi Adarsh, What i your user name/ Have you uploaded to Commons before? Can you kindly show that you have the skills, if you dont mind. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Aadarsh Gupta wrote: > Hi! > I'm interes

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No I haven't yet.. yeah sure, can you pl. make it more clear, skills in what regards you are looking forward to ?? On 28 August 2011 12:58, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Hi Adarsh, > > What i your user name/ Have you uploaded to Commons before? Can you kindly > show that you have the skills, if you do

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I can be a volunteer. I am an active Commons user with over 20,000 edits and is a license-reviewer in commons. Thanks, Sreejith K. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Aadarsh Gupta wrote: > No I haven't yet.. yeah sure, can you pl. make it more clear, skills in > what regards you are looking forwa

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Adarsh, Just read the bottom of this email to which you replied! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Aadarsh Gupta wrote: > No I haven't yet.. yeah sure, can you pl. make it more clear, skills in > what regards y

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Welcome Srijith! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Sreejith K. wrote: > I can be a volunteer. > > I am an active Commons user with over 20,000 edits and is a > license-reviewer in commons. > > Thanks, > Sreejith

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Hi, I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white pictures[1] (in CC) of India in 1978/79. Looks like someone had pictures of a traveller and uploaded into flickr set. Downside being not all pictures have description, so we dont know where they fit in. But am sure collectively we can guess

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Photos taken in 1978 is not in public domain yet. So these pictures cannot be uploaded to commons unless we get explicit permission from the photographer. - Sreejith K. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi, > > I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white pic

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oh, forgot to add. This is only if the flickr user is not the original photographer. Thats not quite evident here. May be we should ask the flickr user about this first. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Sreejith K. wrote: > Photos taken in 1978 is not in public domain yet. So these pictures can

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

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 13:31, Sreejith K. wrote: > Photos taken in 1978 is not in public domain yet. So these pictures cannot > be uploaded to commons unless we get explicit permission from the > photographer. > >> >> I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white pictures[1] (*in CC*) >>

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Sreejith, what is your commons user id please? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Sreejith K. wrote: > I can be a volunteer. > > I am an active Commons user with over 20,000 edits and is a > license-reviewer in c

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My commons id is Sreejithk2000 On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Sreejith, what is your commons user id please? > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > -- > > > > On Su

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Nice! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Sreejith K. wrote: > My commons id is > Sreejithk2000 > > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Ashwin Baindur > wrote

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

Hi Nagarjuna: Thanks very much and yes, I think we can certainly ask Shishir as well if they can help too. I'll put a project plan together and bring it back to the group for discussion. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html On 28 August 2011 12:

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Just one question: Anyone is checking for license fraud? We have a LONG history of users who upload copyrighted pictures in Flickr under "free licenses" to be send to Commons. _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidad

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Okay, good point, Beria. All of us need to keep track of this very carefully and just not uploaded anything suspect. Perhaps we need to review the submissions ajready made as well. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:24 P

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

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: > >> By hosting a WikiSource outside of the US and in the jurisdiction of >>> the country. >>> >> >> This is not limited to Wikisource. Wikimedia Commons is definitely in the >> list

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

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > > The advantage of separately hosted Wikisource is that the artefacts are self > contained and can be used readily. Photographic media will be mainly useful, > when they are embedded in an article. May be non WMF projects  can use  the >

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

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Nagarjuna G wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > wrote: > > > > The advantage of separately hosted Wikisource is that the artefacts are > self > > contained and can be used readily. Photographic media will be mainly > useful, > > when th

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

Hi, I wrote to nicksarabi through Flickrmail about whose collection Srikanth wrote about below. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- From: *ashwin_baindur* To: *nicksarebi* Nick Preview your message *Subject:* About India photostream Hi Nic