Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

2011-12-03 Thread Tory Read
Dear Sudhanwa, My sincerest appologies. In my effort to be transparent, I made a mistake. In the report, attribution by name will not occur. Thank you for answering the chapter question. OSM = open source movement. Thanks for your clarification. Best, Tory Read Sent from my mobile On Dec

[Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia related projects.

2011-12-03 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Dear friends, A new list has been born. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en Now, English Wikipedians editing on India-related subjects can debate, discourse and discuss to their heart's content without anyone disturbing the Wikimedia-I list. We hope this will give rise

[Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello, This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune, am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival Footprintshttp://www.msu-footprints.org/. Also am the Campus Ambassador for India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Noopur
Hey Arnav, I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup in Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :) Warmly Noopur On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey Noopur, Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012. I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time if possible. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia related projects.

2011-12-03 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Ashwin, Request that matters related to glam and offline be discussed on india list as they are not language specific. Regards Arun On Dec 3, 2011 2:58 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, A new list has been born.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New site for easy navigation of Wikipedia

2011-12-03 Thread Deepon Saha
Just saw it!! Awsum, quite easy handy!! congrats cheers to Deepanshu..:) Deepon On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, A new prototype site http://wikilive.in/ has been developed by an Indian student Deepanshu Mehndiratta, a second

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia related projects.

2011-12-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 16:02, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Ashwin, Request that matters related to glam and offline be discussed on india list as they are not language specific. GLAM / Offline are broad terms. Any discussion specific to content creation on English must go into

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New site for easy navigation of Wikipedia

2011-12-03 Thread Anoop
Nice tool. But currently it is implemented only for English :( . It would have been great if it is implemented for language Wikipedia too! Thanks On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Deepon Saha hideeponh...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw it!! Awsum, quite easy handy!! congrats cheers to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kovai Ahoy !!!

2011-12-03 Thread ansuman
Best of luck :) I am ( We are ) with you lad :) On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: Cool! And good luck, Bishakha On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: All the best for this man, wish you a BIG

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Noopur
Hello! Sorry for inbox spamming :) Sitting in the GLAMcamp, I cannot stop thinking how our community is doing so much and not getting highlighted, especially all you Indic editors out there. Though I don't really belong to the Wiki-geeks group, I think an excellent way of outreach is GLAM events.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New site for easy navigation of Wikipedia

2011-12-03 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Nice work really good to see Deepanshu a student make this tool. Extremely well done Deepanshu! The next area of improvement is making the links be chosen semantically. As of now, most of the links are of little value. Needs more development by Deepanshu to improve the usability of the tool.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

2011-12-03 Thread ansuman
+1 Ashwin I wikifyed 72 articles in october wikify drive, More than 60 articles are related to India. I will try to cleanup/wikify 3/4 articles every week. So join me :) On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: True, Pranav. Vast though the information on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

2011-12-03 Thread ansuman
+1 to all comments :) Thanks to all :) On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot Shiju, Ramesh and Ashwin, applauds for Gyana for his recent hard work in a span of even less than a month. We would like to take help from the existing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

2011-12-03 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for sharing this link, Yuvi! As someone completely unfamiliar with the topic, I am wondering if you all consider the issues discussed in that paper still an accurate depiction of the state in education in 2011.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia related projects.

2011-12-03 Thread Ramesh N G
Thanks.. At least now those discussions (talk) related to articles even will not come to india mailing list, which is supposed to be in the talk page of the article. User:Rameshng On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Dear friends, A new list has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi Arnav, I would say a Wikipedia editing workshop or a chapter backed WikiAcademy would be a nice first step. The only thing that one can say to someone is that we will teach them how to edit Wikipedia and contribute to various Wikimedia projects. You can start by making this event

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi Noopur, Hope you're enjoying your time in Amsterdam. We expect a longer report on list after you return to India on GLAMcamp. :) I totally agree with you that we need to reach-out more at college fests and events. I think an email was sent around on the list about participating in the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?

2011-12-03 Thread Yuvi Panda
If only Ace supports it, I'm assuming they would have to release the code for that. https://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp;jsessionid=8C92D0B55573A09D0D7EFC4EB7976034 is where all the source drops are, and I see that the code for the Ace has been made available. Can someone who understands

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Fw: [Astronomy_Activities_2009] Kutch Rann Utsav 2011 plus Total Lunar Eclipse!

2011-12-03 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Thought some on this list might be interested. warm regards, Pradeep As every year we the members of Kutch Amateur Astronomers' Club are taking part in the Rann Utsav 2011 which organizes at the Kala Dungar (The Black Hills) and the white salty desert of Dhorado village in the northern

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey Noopur and Pradeep, How does Wikimedia Photo Scavenger Hunt sounds ?? Do have a look at the following link and tell if this would be possible or not. http://toolserver.org/~contests/startahunt.php On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: hi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-03 Thread Theo10011
Just out of curiosity, Who is Karthik? Anyone from Mumbai community aware? a username perhaps? Regards Theo On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, I just saw that Indian editor Karthik Nadar is in the banners today, with a beautiful appeal.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-03 Thread Swaroop Rao
He's User:Karthikndr on enwiki. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 01:22, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiosity, Who is Karthik? Anyone from Mumbai community aware? a username perhaps? Regards Theo On Fri,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-03 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr Hope this helps. I guess Karthik came to Wiki-conference Mumbai too http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/India_storytelling#WikiConference_India_-_Mumbai.2C_November_17-20 Reports on Karthik's appeal.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-03 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, I forgot to update; Patricia (from the fundraising team I suppose) just told me that they're working on Debit card and other means of payment for INR this year. Debit card payments are possible now, see

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

2011-12-03 Thread wheredevelsdare
Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea might be applicable on a national level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th if my memory serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide to celebrate Wikipedia 10. How about having a National Wikimedia Photo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-03 Thread wheredevelsdare
If I remember correct, Karthik was one of the Campus Ambassador applicants from Mumbai. From: tinucher...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 07:52:33 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

2011-12-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:53, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea might be applicable on a national level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th if my memory serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

2011-12-03 Thread wheredevelsdare
I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected. From: srik@gmail.com Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:12:42 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012 On Sun, Dec

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

2011-12-03 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
*I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected. *The execution would be simple but needs a bit of spade work before and after, especially with copyvio detection. New editors usually misunderstand copyright policies

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

2011-12-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:17, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected. Even for a photowalk, customizing the uploadwizard will be good. Generally people upload elsewhere,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

2011-12-03 Thread Hisham
On Dec 4, 2011, at 10:58 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: If I remember correct, Karthik was one of the Campus Ambassador applicants from Mumbai. Yes, I think Karthik was one of the Campus Ambassadors applicants. fyi for the rest of the community, what

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Hisham
responding to both Pradeep Noopur. On Dec 3, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: hi Noopur, Hope you're enjoying your time in Amsterdam. We expect a longer report on list after you return to India on GLAMcamp. :) I totally agree with you that we need to reach-out more at college

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Hisham
and this is where I feel a little stupid because Arnav has been hounding me for answers to these very same questions for a while now, and I have been lax. Arnav, apologies and please see inline... hisham On Dec 3, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Arnav Sonara wrote: Hello, This is