[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Ahmedabad Workshop - 2

2012-12-10 Thread Harsh Kothari
Hi All We are going to organize 2nd Wikipedia Workshop at Ahmedabad on 16th December, 2012[1]. Agenda The agenda includes explaining the basics of Wikipedia, 5 Pillars, few policies, anatomy of an article, basic editing Wikipedia etc. On the event day, a Wikimedia community member will introdu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments

2012-12-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
We are st,ill verifying his identity, but someone claiming to be the winner did contact us via Facebook. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:24 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > I was told that the 1st prize winner reached out to us after seeing the > "The Hindu" article. > > -TC > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Day Celebrations 2013

2012-12-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thank you Arun, please do spread the word. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Arun Ramarathnam wrote: > Dear Srikanth and EC, > > Thank you for the heads up. > The Bangalore community will make a formal request. > > regards > Arun > . > > Arun Ramarathnam > Bangalore, India > www.arunram.net | www

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments

2012-12-10 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Yes, Verification of the identity is absolutely necessary. How about also asking him to log in via his already registered wiki account and ascertain his identity too. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < srik.r...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > We are st,ill verifying his identity, bu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments

2012-12-10 Thread Karthik Nadar
For others, how we confirmed their identity was via mailing them from Wikimedia Commons. identity On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:12 PM, CherianTinu Abraham < tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, Verification of the identity is absolutely necessary. How about also > asking him to log in via his already

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments

2012-12-10 Thread Sheel Sindhu Manohar
Congrats to winners and all those participants who made this event successful. It was an amazing experience. :) On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote: > Dear all, > > It is immense pleasure for me and Naveen to announce that India has won > officially at the photo-contest Wiki

[Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Pradeep Nair
Hi, Creative Commons, the license that Wikipedia and its sister projects have been using turns 10 this year. Their celebrations - http://10.creativecommons.org/ - last for 10 days from December 7 to 16. If you have a meetup in that period, perhaps we can celebrate. Pradeep Sent from Yahoo! M

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Thanks for sharing this Pradeep. This is perhaps a good time to do Commons focused events in various cities regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Pradeep Nair wrote: > Hi, > > Creative Commons, the licens

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Hi Arun, Since you mentioned this, thought it may be a good idea to let everyone know of something in the pipeline. A few days back the chapter was informed of an impending visit to India by members of the Creative Commons team from San Francisco and the EC was introduced to them. We have exchang

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Thanks Pradeep for the post! Pranav, this could be great if Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi community have their meetup at the same time so we could hangout and say hi to each other. Could I also request to connect community members with the creative commons guys so they can spend some time with the p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Pranav Curumsey
Hi Subha, Thank you for your note. Just to clarify, we are talking of full day workshops when the CC Team visit India in February 2012. The 3 workshops will have to be on different days as the CC Team intends to attend each of them as well as Gnunify in Pune. In addition to the above, thanks for

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2012-12-10 Thread Nee Davis
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Pradeep Nair
Hi Pranav, I think the two topics Creative Commons 10 this week and their impending visit to India in February, 2013 are getting mixed .  I think Shuba is referring to the CC 10 celebration meetups if they happen. Could you fork a seperate thread for the February events and leave this thread f

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Nee Davis
Hi, Any event planned in Bangalore? On 11 December 2012 12:23, Pradeep Nair wrote: > Hi Pranav, > > I think the two topics Creative Commons 10 this week and their impending > visit to India in February, 2013 are getting mixed . I think Shuba is > referring to the CC 10 celebration meetups if t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

2012-12-10 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Right Pradeep, I was talking about the CC 10 celebration :) As we have more time we can plan out for the February events. On 11 December 2012 12:23, Pradeep Nair wrote: > Hi Pranav, > > I think the two topics Creative Commons 10 this week and their impending > visit to India in February, 2013