[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Wikipedia WikiMeetup 43 on Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 , 3 PM

Hi all, On behalf of the Bangalore Wikipedia / Wikimedia Community, we would like to co-cordially invite you to attend the 43rd Bangalore Wikimeetup on*Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 3 PM * http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43 *Date: *: Sunday, 11-March-2012 Time: 3:00 PM IST *

[Wikimediaindia-l] Monthly meetup of Pune Wikipedians - 10 March 2012

 Dear All, >> >>The next monthly meetup of Pune wikipedians, WikiPuneri, is planned for >>Saturday 10 Mar 2010, from 1800 to 1900 hrs at Ranade Institute, Ferguson >>Road, Near Rupali, Pune >> >>The intended purpose of the meetup is: >> >>Set up a long-term plan for a year's worth of Wikipuner

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

+1 from my side for Sudhanwa's views.   I am still not clear as a small wikipedian, I should contribute to Foundation, Chapter, Community.   With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org http://mr.wikisource.org http://live.wikimedia.in - Forwarded Message - >From: Sudhanwa Jo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

hi, You should contribute to Wikipedia and sister projects. You can contribute to any activity that you like in the community, chapter or office. Pradeep Handheld On 08/03/2012, Mandar Kulkarni wrote: > +1 from my side for Sudhanwa's views. > > I am still not clear as a small wikipedian, I sho

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

> > IEP volunteers > This is another branding going on to side line wikipedia editors. Remember once a person start editing in Wikipedia they are wikipedians. But here we are branding and sidelining them to prove our POV. I have seen members (both in this list and in other lists) using the wor

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

> > I am still not clear as a small wikipedian, I should contribute to > Foundation, Chapter, Community. > I would say since you are already contributing to Marathi wikipedia and its sister projects you continue contributing there. If interested you can contribute to other WMF wikis also (for exam

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

I strongly agree that we should NOT categorize or sideline any Wikipedians based on how they came to project or any particular association. The idea of any Wikimedia project is bring in more and more users ( editors and readers) and not bring in any kind of "caste system". But I won't see English

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: > IEP volunteers >> > > This is another branding going on to side line wikipedia editors. > Remember once a person start editing in Wikipedia they are wikipedians. > But here we are branding and sidelining them to prove our POV. > No one is "bra

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

hmmm. /me wrong. I was not present on that day and the names that I heard were all from IEP. -Sudhanwa On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Sudhanwa, a small correction. I was not supported by IEP members in Gnunify > but those of Wikipedia Pune Club which does include some fo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

Yes, I agree. It is a fine point I am making, that I would rather see these people through the lens of present affiliation than past affiliation. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > hmmm

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > I would like to add here that Nitika's & Subashish's presentation was a > great one for me to customise with my slides. I strongly recommend that > rather than recreate the wheel their presentation be used by all those > planning English lang

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Update: India Program Emphasis for March 2012

Thanks for starting this afresh Hisham, the other thread was going haywire. Referring to my earlier email with regards to this, could you please provide a detailed report instead of a very general one as it is at the moment? Also, the meta page detailing Outreach Sessions gives a link to onl

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

Sudhanwa, I think the NITT event is more infamous than famous. : ) [Whatever the case be, I'm still at the receiving end of 17 odd people and have been nicknamed the Master of Disaster]. I'd not like to talk about my stay and trip. Simply speaking, Saagar, was helpful, he arranged as per what I tol

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal

Sure Ashwin happy to feature all Wikimedians :-) Hoi, Bpositive, S-Sriram & Kondicherry can you update page ? http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian How you contribute to Wikimedia projects- editing,photography,outreach,map making ? Please add a photo in the page. Thanks, naveenpf On Thu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Kiwix-testing] [KIWIX] New version of Kiwix for Sugar

Hello, Am running ubuntu 11.04 and kiwix version 0.9beta for linux. I have encountered the following bugs this far. * The Title word index is loading a blank white page. //Stephen On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Jessie Wild wrote: > Forwarding this information about ZIM reader Kiwix, which is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Update: India Program Emphasis for March 2012

Hey, I have given a comment yesterday. Hisham, are you monitoring the comments? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:54 PM, wrote: > Thanks for starting this afresh Hisham, the other thread was going > haywire. > > Refer

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal

Hey, I can, but I don't know if Ssriram_mt is S-Sriram. From: navee...@wikimedia.in Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:59:12 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal Sure Ashwin happy to feature all Wikim

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal

I don't have access for editing that template. Konarak From: konarak...@live.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 21:55:50 +0530 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal Hey, I can, but I don't know if Ssr

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal

Just add your name and a short profile here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian . Sysops there can then later update it on the main page. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch ) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 22:21, Konarak Ratnakar wrote: > I don't have acc

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian on the main page of the Chapter Web Portal

I have added my entry over there. Please let me know if I need to cut is short. Thanks, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Naveen Francis wrote: > Sure Ashwin happy to feature all Wikimedians :-) > > Hoi, > > Bpositive, S-Sriram & Kondicherry can you update page ? > htt

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

Dear Shiju, On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: >> IEP volunteers The discussion started off with the India Program report and I believe that IEP is completely part of IP. Moreover, they are Wikipedia volunteers from IEP as it is their reference/starting point, just like you refer

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] The kind, gentle approach to retaining new editors

Something in the light of our recent discussions :) A good read! -- Forwarded message -- From: Matthew Roth Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:05 AM Subject: [Wmfcc-l] The kind, gentle approach to retaining new editors To: Communications Committee Hi all, You might remember Susan Hew

[Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

Hoi, The good news is that there is approval for the Gujarati Wikisource. We are quite happy to post a bug asking for the creation of this new Wiki but for one small detail. There is information lacking that is necessary for the creation of this new wiki. I am happy to share this news and I hope i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

Gerard, that is really very very good news. Hopefully we will see valuable heritage texts in Gujarati come into open access. I feel that each Indic language community must ask for Wikisource if not already held in that language. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ---

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

Excellent news ! Looking forward to see Wikisources in all other Indic languages too. Time to update http://wikisource.in :) -TC On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Gerard, that is really very very good news. Hopefully we will see valuable > heritage texts in Gujarati come i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Monthly meetup of Pune Wikipedians - 10 March 2012

Can we not have this meetup say from 1600 to 1700. I really want to attend it but I have to go to my brother's place in Pimpri and its very difficult to get buses after 1800? On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Mandar Kulkarni wrote: > > Dear All, > > > The next monthly meetup of Pune wikipedians,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

2012/3/9 Ashwin Baindur : > Gerard, that is really very very good news. Hopefully we will see valuable > heritage texts in Gujarati come into open access. I feel that each Indic > language community must ask for Wikisource if not already held in that > language. Yes, a Wikisource is indeed very im

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Monthly meetup of Pune Wikipedians - 10 March 2012

Will drop you to a proper bus-stand at highway in Dapodi. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay wrote: > Can we not have this meetup say from 1600 to 1700. I really want to attend > it but I ha

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] A ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON WIKIPEDIA at Jamia Millia Islamia on 22nd March 2012

This is great, hope to see more interested students this time, and please make sure the students who have attended the previous "Introduction to Wikipedia" session, I would also suggest you to attend the Delhi7monthly meetup along with cou

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

Awesome! I do hope our Indic language communities take up this golden opportnity. What is the amount needed in Kb/documents before one can get one's own WikiProject, Amir? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Amir E

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

2012/3/9 Ashwin Baindur : > Awesome! I do hope our Indic language communities take up this golden > opportnity. What is the amount needed in Kb/documents before one can get > one's own WikiProject, Amir? We never measured it, but the bureaucracy is very small. The focus is on the real work, not o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Update: India Program Emphasis for March 2012

On Mar 8, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Hey, I have given a comment yesterday. Hisham, are you monitoring the > comments? Absolutely. ...have responded on the page itself.. ...and would love to hear suggestions and comments from as many folks as possible. Please do post your su

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] A ONE DAY WORKSHOP ON WIKIPEDIA at Jamia Millia Islamia on 22nd March 2012

Just a pointer. The Invites Applications looks like the NHAI is inviting bids for a Toll Road. Is it a select people only event? On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > This is great, hope to see more interested students this time, and please > make sure the students who h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

Excellent news. Gujuarati Wikipedians, please take this forward. I request Arnav Sonara and Konark Ratnakar to start off. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2012/3/9 Ashwin Baindur : > > Awesome! I do hope our Indic language communities take

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Awesome! I do hope our Indic language communities take up this golden > opportnity. What is the amount needed in Kb/documents before one can get > one's own WikiProject, Amir? The Hindi Wikisource could be launched as soon as there is an act

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved

Congrats to all Gujarati Wikipedians, hoe this brings more editor to the community, please consider talking to the Malayal Wiki Community about the "Kerala Sarvavignankosam project" which brought them a lot of reasonably old and good content, I believe some similar kind of project could innervate v