Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How Can I contribute

2011-08-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Vijai Ganapathy wrote: > Hi All, > > I am watching the mailing list for quite sometime here. I would like > to understand how can I contribute to wikimedia ? > > Please see the project proposals from chapter at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Projects:2011-12 You can v

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

2011-08-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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, and may be some other projects also. > The advantage of separately hos

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2011-08-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
://gyanpad.appspot.com Cheers Arjun On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM, arjuna rao chavala < arjunar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I added a comment on google issue. > > http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=454&q=virtual%20keyboard&colspec=ID%20Type%20St

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

2011-08-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > I have also requested the election committee and the current Exec team to > also publish the electoral roll too on the members wiki . This might help to > well wishers to appeal to the good candidates to stand for the elections and > he

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

2011-08-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan wrote: > Hi fellow wiki'ers, > > Can you please how to nominate myself for the posts.. > This is open only for Chapter members. If you have become wikimedia chapter member, you would have received the call for nominations with instructions. In

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

2011-08-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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

2011-08-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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

2011-08-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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

2011-08-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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 > origi

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

2011-08-28 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
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 b

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 3rd Bangalore Odia Wiki Meetup- Odia Wikipedia reaches 1500 articles

2011-08-29 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Hi folks, > > Good morning from Odia Wiki Community. > > Yesterday we had a small meetup to celebrate the *"1500 articles > Celebration" *attended by 6 old and 1 new Wikipedians. > --cut-- > Nice to see how a bunch of motivated people

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

2011-08-30 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 10:22 PM, 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,_Bangalo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindi Wiki crossed 1 lakh Article milestone

2011-08-30 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:50 PM, mayur wrote: > Dear all, >With about 50,000 registered user, 250 active users , > 14 million edits and a depth of > 34Hindi > Wikipedia crossed 1 > lakhs

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 20, 000 articles.

2011-09-07 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:22 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hi all, > > I was waiting for one of the active Malayalam Wikipedia editors > to announce it here .. with no such signs, let me do the privilege on their > behalf. :) > > I am delighted to announce that Malayalam Wikipedia ( ml.wikipedi

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

2011-09-07 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:03 PM, ansuman wrote: > Thanks Gautam, I can help. cya Thanks Ansuman, Please add your name to the event page at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Department_of_Public_Libraries,_Bangalore The presentation files that we could use, leveraging the presentations from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Call for participation for 37th Bangalore Wiki meetup, 11 Sep 2011

2011-09-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Few suggestions regarding topics *Presentation by Oriya, Hindi, Malayalam on their recent accomplishments and the strategies that helped them *Wikimania overview by any of the Wikimania attendees from India covering key takeaways. Cheers Arjun On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Subhashish Panigrah

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia in India:Past Present and the Future

2011-09-11 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Please visit the following url and download the document for several articles on Wikipedia research including the one titled Wikipedia in India:Past Present and the Future by Gautam K John. http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/2011/05/10/critical-point-of-view-a-wikipedia-reader/ Ch

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Notices on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-09-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hello all, > > Untill July, Site notice in Tamil Wikpedia used to give only prominent > links to Fonts / typing tutorial / Village pump. Occasionally when > meet-ups/workshops happen, we would announce them. We thought to put this > sys

[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on First Wiki Academy organised by Wikimedia Chapter

2011-09-13 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Friends, I am happy to share the report on the first Wiki Academy organised by Wikimedia Chapter. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Department_of_Public_Libraries,_Bangalore#Report Please spread the word around and help in identifying other institutions for co-hosting future events Chapter

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on First Wiki Academy organised by Wikimedia Chapter

2011-09-13 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:39 PM, omshivaprak...@gmail.com < omshivaprak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy to be a part of First Wiki Academy. Thanks to Arjun for pulling me in > and look forward for more such activities. > > It was really interesting to see librarians looking at wikipedia. Many > ask

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India blog site is now ready

2011-09-21 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Check out the first blog on http://wikimedia.in/ which gives the background behind getting the site up and running and share your feedback. Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India blog site is now ready

2011-09-21 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Check out the first blog on http://wikimedia.in/ which gives the >> background behind getting the site up and running and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India blog site is now ready

2011-09-21 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Thanks Jayanta Nath and *Nasir Khan Saikat * On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jayanta Nath wrote: > Hi , > > Thanks for sharing. The design of the blog is very nice and clean. and > choosing the wordpress for creating th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] Announcement to offer sponsorship to WikiConference India 2011

2011-09-23 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Kundan Amitabh wrote: > Hi, > > It is with great pleasure that I am able to extend offers of sponsorship > from *Ang India Technologies * and * > SarkariNaukri.com *, a flagship non-profit > sister organisati

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Wikimedia India - AGM and Election Results

2011-09-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Gautam John wrote: > On 26 September 2011 00:27, Béria Lima wrote: > > > That shouldn't be annouced in Internal-l? > > I'm assuming the President, copied, will do so shortly. > > Yes, we will be doing it in couple of days after updating the EC member profiles.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune intro to wikipedia workshop: a short report

2011-09-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Bishakha, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > > Dear all, > > Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as > part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at > the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about

[Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Wikimedia India New EC members: Naveen, Sudhanwa and Tinu

2011-10-01 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
help in rapid growth of Wikimedia movement. You can read more about their profile and see their photos on wiki at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia_India_Chapter_Executive_Committee_Members Please join me in wishing the new EC members all the best. Sincerely, Arjuna Rao Chavala President

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Gautam John steps down from Wikimedia India board and Secretary's position

2011-10-01 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala Date: Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:18 PM Subject: Gautam John steps down from Wikimedia India board and Secretary's position To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com, Wikimedia India EC < wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Chapter & Foundation : Sep 2011 : Meeting Update

2011-10-01 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Hisham wrote: > >> >> > >> Arjun explained that FCRA application will be initiated now that the AGM >> is done and EC elections are completed. >> >> Do the May 2011 amendments to FCRA allow new non-profits

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy Mumbai 1 notes

2011-10-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Pradeep Mohandas < pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > Warning: This is a lnggg email. > > We held our first WikiAcademy in Mumbai on October 1, 2011 at the Center > for Education and Documentation, Colaba. The session was attended by 24 > attendees. R

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy Mumbai 1 notes

2011-10-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:21, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > >> >> I too faced difficulties some times. Anonmous editing usually worked, >> unless the IP itself is blocked. Sometimes while English wiki h

[Wikimediaindia-l] September-2011 Chapter Update

2011-10-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
first Wiki Academy conducted at Indira Priyadarshini State Childrens Library, Department of Public Libraries, Bangalore. All participants were given a copy of Chapter brochure, Welcome to Wikipedia,Evaluating Wikipedia quality brochures. Arjuna Rao Chavala explained how Wikipedia was founded ten year

[Wikimediaindia-l] Facilitators for Wiki Academy at LNCT-INDORE

2011-10-09 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
conducting Wiki Academies/outreach events. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President,Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https

[Wikimediaindia-l] Naveen Francis is elected as the Secretary

2011-10-18 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition

2011-11-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
initiative, the first collective effort to appreciate stellar contributions from the community a success. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India *** Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition The Recognition Wikimedia projects have been active in India for a few years and the journey has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition

2011-11-11 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Ravi, Thanks for your email. Tinu's response has captured some keypoints behind the initiative, which was discussed with EC and other stakeholders, so I will be brief. Additional responses inline.. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Arjuna, > > I am not very excited with

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Update on City/language SIG

2011-11-13 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM Subject: Update on City/language SIG To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Dear Members, I am glad to inform you that following requests from EC to strengthen the city/language SIGs< h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Payment methods: IMPS, ECS (say to become member)

2011-11-16 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Thanks for your suggestions. Let us discuss more during conference. On Nov 17, 2011 10:41 AM, "RadhaKrishna Arvapally" < radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > In the membership application form, I see multiple options were provided > to the user for payment (like DD/Cheque/Online).

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Did you know?

2011-11-21 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Just tried it. Worked beautifully. Congrats! Look forward to the blogpost Cheers ARJUNA On Nov 21, 2011 9:08 PM, "Srikanth Lakshmanan" wrote: > * Did you know a lot of useful things were done at the Mediawiki India > Hackathon see notes[1] . Thanks to all who made it happen and successful. > > I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updates from Mumbai hackathon

2011-11-21 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Thanks for the update. Happy to know that the session is productive with several hacks that worked. Congratulations! Arjuna Rao Chavala On Nov 22, 2011 12:38 AM, "Erik Moeller" wrote: > The Mumbai hackathon was awesome and really productive, with lots of > improvements to inte

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs

2011-11-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally < radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes Subhashish, > > It is not legal they using wikipedia logo (They are also using wikimedia > projects style of domain name). > > RK: Can you send a email to legal...@wikimedia.org about the above

[Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter presentation deck at Wiki Conference India

2011-11-24 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
wiki projects. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

[Wikimediaindia-l] Invite for contributing a blogpost for WIkimedia.in on Wiki Conference India

2011-11-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Here is an open invite for anyone who attended the WCI to contribute a blogpost to the site http://wikimedia.in Please register on the site (Right side menu, menta ->Register)) and send me a mail for changing your user rights as contributor, if you are interested. Cheers Arjun ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Let's applaud the India Hackathon

2011-11-29 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Thanks Kul for the update. I am glad to see the achievments. Congratulations to all the participants. I too wanted to join but could not because it was done in parallel with separate registration process. Hope we can improve next time so that you have real Wikipedians user perspective as we

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

2011-12-02 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
her vendors will also start to support indic soon and Akash tablet will have enough computing power to deal with indic while supporting all other functionality. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Update on City/language SIG

2011-12-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Update on City/language SIG To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Dear Members, I am glad to inform you about further updates to City/Language SIGs. The following members have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi all, > > Just as we started the Tamil Wiki Media Contest[1], we have realized the > power of social media[2] and virality. In an attempt to increase page views > even by single digits and having more visibility for content pages, I wa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SocialShare Gadget on Tamil Wikipedia

2011-12-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011>earlier If there is some easier analysis of the number of view of the conference, pre and post the introduction of sharing buttons, it may give idea the usefulness of the idea. Probably this could apply to Tamil contest. C

[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu e-zine special issue on Wiki Conference 2011 released

2011-12-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
=625497 Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates & Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
r or lead to confusion in the stakeholders. It is mutual. I am sorry the minutes did not reflect the same, though it was discussed and agreed. Hope the above helps. I request Hisham to share his view as well. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India > > On 06/12/2011, Hisham

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Calls / Meeting - Updates & Minutes

2011-12-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your explanation for the explanation Arjuna, but I still > have a question. What feedback are you looking for? > If the proposed public communication were to contain specific role for the Ch

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
gt;project page on Wikimedia.in for sharing your thoughts and/or proposals. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences vis

[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
://mentor.ieee.org/stds-india/bp/Indic_Virtual_Keyboards I seek your support and participation in this initiative. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala WG Chair, P1908.1 Virtual keyboard standard for Indic languages Twitter id: @arjunaraoc <http://twitter.com/#%21/arjunar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
- Sent via mobile On Dec 12, 2011 7:18 PM, "Ashwin Baindur" wrote: > > I'm a bit confused Arjuna, is the study over or yet to begin? > There has been some background work about the proposal and sharing of current status. The real work is about to b

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
g and to decide on any alternatives, IEEE-SA membership will be needed, which again is being offered at reduced rates for Indians. The official Work Group will be kick off in January. I request interested people to subscribe to the mailing list of the initiative<http://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 1st Wiki Academy, Jaya Engineering College, Bangalore

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
initiatives to bring up more editors. > > The link below could be relevant http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_Student_Organizations Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscrib

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
in? > > > > Warm regards, > > > > Ashwin Baindur > > -------------- > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > > wrote: > > > >> Hi Friends, > >> > >> Indi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for participation in IEEE P1908.1 Virtual Keyboard Standard development for Indic languages

2011-12-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
, IEEE-SA membership will be needed, which again is being offered at reduced rates for Indians. The official Work Group will be kicked off in January. I request interested people to subscribe to the mailing list of the initiative<http://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=indic-input-stds&A=

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

2011-12-14 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
with encourage people to edit, participate in nearby meetups, wiki academies, encourage membership in chapter to grow the movement on a sustainable basis. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala - Sent via mobile On Dec 14, 2011 11:10 PM, "Srikanth Ramakrishnan" wrote: > He

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011

2011-12-17 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
e and collaboration to be able handle such pilots. > Chapter has kicked off Language SIGs for some of the languages. I am sure the language SIG chairs and the active language Wikipedians will be eager to interact with you on the next steps. Best wishes Arjuna Rao Chavala ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-18 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
ies are not added as part of Upload. After few days, a bot will flag all those images with the uncategorised warning. Can you explore enhancing the tool to support categorisation along with Upload? I will try your tool in couple of weeks and provide

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

2011-12-19 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
use the nicely produced Wikipedia promotion videos<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:September_2010_Wikipedia_Videos>apart from sharing my own experiences in the events that I participate. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikime

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

2011-12-19 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
text are there to > pick up from? > > use gthumb to add some meta data. > we can parse it and use them as categories. > Yes, Looks like a good idea. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

2011-12-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
I am really pleased and excited to announce that Subhashish Panigrahi has > agreed to join as Consultant, Community & Program Support. > > --cut-- > Congratulations Subhashish! Happy to see the strengthening of India programs team with this ad

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011

2011-12-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: > What I found one of the key factor behind active communities particularly >> Tamil and Malayalam, is the support of Government for the initiative. This >> could be a priority area for other Wikipedias as well. > > > According to my knowledge,

[Wikimediaindia-l] Photos and videos from Victor (cell phones and Indian languages)

2011-12-30 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Sample photos and video that Victor, WMF Story teller who shot them during his recent visit could be of interest. Photos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangalore_Wikipedian_on_phone_5_closeup.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bangalore_Wikipedian_on_phone_3.jpg Video: http://en.wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

2012-01-02 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:15 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hi , > In case you haven't seen this : Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports > > *Wikipedia Page Views Per Country* - Overview > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryOverview.htm > > Only 1.9 % of tra

[Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter-Foundation: Co-Ordination Call-December Update

2012-01-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Dear All Here is a summary of the Wikimedia India Chapter and WMF India programs coordination call. Date of call: Wednesday Dec 21 (Voice Conference) Attendees: Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov & Hisham Mu

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Call For Participation: IEEE P1908.1™ Working Group, Virtual keyboard Standard for Indian Languages

2012-01-11 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
lowing the instructions. Information for attending the first meeting will be sent to all the registered people prior to the meeting. For any further clarifications, please contact *Arjuna Rao Chavala, IEEE P1908.1 Working Group Chair, *at* arjunar...@ieee.org. * IEEE Standards Association<ht

[Wikimediaindia-l] CFF: Wiki Academy at Coimbatore for Journalism & Communication Students on 28 Jan 2012

2012-01-12 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Like Bangalore and Chennai etc) will be borne by the College. I am planning to participate in the same and would like another 2 to 4 people to join me. Kindly let me know by tomorrow. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaind

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'

2012-01-21 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 16:54, Ravishankar wrote: > >> * Try using services like http://pediapress.com/ or tie up with a local >> publisher to print books regarding Kolkatta, West Bengal, Bangaladesh and >> any relevant local content.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy for Communication students of ASCOM, Coimbatore - Blog post

2012-02-10 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Please check the blog post on Wiki Academy for students of Amrita School of Communication, Coimbatore <http://blog.wikimedia.in/?p=141> Thanks to Govind Hari, a participant of the Wiki Academy for the blogpost. Cheers Arjuna Rao C

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Telugu article count crosses 50, 000

2012-03-14 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
రహ్మనుద్దీన్ Rahmanuddin, శుభవార్త తెలిపినందులకు ధన్యవాదాలు. ఈ మైలురాయి చేరుటలోనేనొక చిన్నపాత్రపోషించినందులకు నాకు సంతోషంగా వుంది. తోటి వికీపీడీయన్లు మరియు ఇతరుల కృషికి ,తోడ్పాటుకి అభివందనలు. Thanks for the update. I am happy to have played a small part towards this milestone. Congratulations to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An easy way to improve the spelling and grammar in the Wikipedia in your language

2012-03-17 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
. - Sent via mobile On Mar 18, 2012 5:10 AM, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > 2012/3/18 Arjuna Rao Chavala : > > Telugu spell checker (Self plug:contributed by me )is at > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/telugu-spell-checker/ > > Arjuna, th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report

2012-03-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > The Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report > > Apologies for the delayed email. Work ate me. > > TL;DR: 13 completed hacks, including 2 core mediawiki patches, 3 > tawiki userscript updates and 2 new deployed tools. It was super >

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India resolution on Chapters council

2012-03-27 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala Date: Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:23 PM Subject: Wikimedia India resolution on Chapters council To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi, Here is the update on resolution relating to Chapters council formation after due deliberations

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhiji is added to Gujarati Wikisource

2012-05-02 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi All, Delighted to hear this update. Congratulations to all who were involved with this effort. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > Thanks once again Ashwin, > > I have been considering to release the books officially, but > unfortunately, PDF conversion is not working wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WCI 2011

2012-05-20 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Chapter bank account for Conference has begun a week back. The audit report will be shared after the audit is completed. Regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsu

[Wikimediaindia-l] Telugu Wiktionary launches WOTD

2012-05-21 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
need more of interactions offline and online among the various Wiki language communities (technical/content) to strengthen our projects serving information needs of people. Regards Arjuna Rao Chavala On behalf of Telugu Wiktionarians. [1] http://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%8A%E0%B0%A6%

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimapia switches to CC-BY-SA

2012-06-14 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Check out: http://wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=9878#p194763 A welcome change! Hope this will increase the quality of maps in Wiki Projects. Regards Arjuna ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscrib

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia content books on Archive.org

2012-06-16 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Thought it will be of interest to note that books using Wikipedia Content including few from Telugu Wikipedia have appeared on Archive.org, by a contributor with user name Wikipedia Contributor http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Wikipedia+Contributors%22 Regards Arjuna ___

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments IRC on Jun 21 at 09:00PM

2012-06-20 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
esmonuments.in/> The planning for the event is being kicked off with an IRC session on 21,June,2012 <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/June_21,2012> at 9:00pm IST <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats>. All interested are invited to join the IRC session. T

[Wikimediaindia-l] Request for feedback on draft Rules for Elections and appointments to Chapter positions

2012-06-22 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
9 2012* preferably on wiki page<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Election_%26_Appointment_Rules>. Regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS.in - call for proposals open till 8 July

2012-06-23 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, In 2010, Wikimedia Foundation organised few sessons. I, Anirudh and few others helped manage the stall. Regards Arjuna On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > No, the last one was in 2010 & in 2009 I attended as the sole > Wikipedian - besides me, Jackerhack was there hacki

[Wikimediaindia-l] Communication on Chapter Accomplishments and EC Vacancies

2012-07-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
sent EC, the following members (in alphabetical order of their first names) have decided to step down from EC after the upcoming AGM. - Arjuna Rao Chavala - Arun Ramarathnam - Naveen Francis - Srinivas Gunta - Tinu Cherian Anirudh Singh Bhati and Sudhanwa Jogalekar will continue on the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Communication on Chapter Accomplishments and EC Vacancies

2012-07-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
der of their first names) have decided to step down from EC after the upcoming AGM. - Arjuna Rao Chavala - Arun Ramarathnam - Naveen Francis - Srinivas Gunta - Tinu Cherian Anirudh Singh Bhati and Sudhanwa Jogalekar will continue on the EC. Further Anirudh will be continuing till h

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Election Committee appointment for Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012

2012-07-25 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala Date: Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:47 PM Subject: Election Committee appointment for Wikimedia Chapter Elections-2012 To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Dear Members, Greetings, I am glad to inform you that Election rules<h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Communication on Chapter Accomplishments and EC Vacancies

2012-07-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
ry one for the opportunity to be part of this great movement which I will continue to be associated. Best regards Arjuna Rao Chavala On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > Sorry, Here is a better readable version after fixing layout.. Arjuna > > Commu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program

2012-07-30 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
and WMF all the best for the initiative. Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

[Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteers for Wiki Academy on 6 Aug 2012, Monday at Dravidian Univ, Kuppam

2012-07-31 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
places to join us. As of now, myself and Radhakrishna, Chair, Bangalore SIG have confirmed our plans. Let me know if any one is interested to join us by Aug 3, 2012. Thanks and regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC on EC elections for this year,

2012-08-01 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi All, The IRC log is available at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election_IRC_Jul2012 Thanks Arjuna On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Gautam John wrote: > No. It's not mandatory. This is only to clarify questions there may be. > > Thank you. > > Best, > > Gautam > > http://blog.prathambooks

[Wikimediaindia-l] Inputs for Draft Annual report 2011-12

2012-08-07 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi Members and Community, We invite you to contribute content and help share the Chapter annual report for the first full year of operation at this page. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Annual_Report_2011-12-Draft Thanks and Regards Arjuna ___ Wiki

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Inputs for Draft Annual report 2011-12

2012-08-08 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Karthik Nadar wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala > wrote: > >> Hi Members and Community, >> >> >> We invite you to contribute content and help share the Chapter annual >> report

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-09 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
team, I wish you the very best. Best wishes.and regards Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Barry Newstead wrote: > Cross-posting > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Barry Newstead > Date: Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:41 AM >

[Wikimediaindia-l] Blog post on Wikimedia India promotion at The Fifth Elephant conference

2012-08-29 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Here is a blog post by A. Radhakrishna, Bangalore SIG Chair .. Wikimedia India partnered with the organisers of The Fifth Elephant Conference held at at NIMHANS convention center on 27th & 28th July 2012. It setup a stall in the partners exhibit area. (Read mor

[Wikimediaindia-l] Blog post on Multilingual Wiki Academy at Dravidian University

2012-08-29 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi, Here is a blog post by A. Radhakrishna, Bangalore SIG Chair .. Conducting Wiki Academy @ Dravidian universityis a special experience as majority of the audience was from the teaching staff. It is also the first ever multi lingual Wiki Academy conducted

[Wikimediaindia-l] Snail mail (Post) update

2012-09-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Here are the details of the snail mail received last week via CIS. a) Signed agreement from Apar Gupta regarding Pro bono legal services b)Wiki Conference India bank account statement Jun-Aug(till closing) from Pranav c)Completed Individual membership application form from *Moksh Juneja with det

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Snail mail (Post) update

2012-09-04 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Sorry for the earlier email sent inadvertently. Regards Arjuna On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > Here are the details of the snail mail received last week via CIS. > > > a) Signed agreement from Apar Gupta regarding Pro bono legal services > b)Wiki C

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hiring of Executive Manager for Wikimedia India

2012-09-05 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote: > Hi Naveen > > May I suggest that some experience in collaborative working be included in > the specs. It is not a 'natural' skill, especially not (in my experience) > when working with digital media, which I notice is one of the needs, and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Q&A with the nominees

2012-09-06 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
Hi All, I have kicked off Q&A with the following question Natural working style? Can you share your couple of examples of on wiki or off wiki contributions or talk about your natural working style and how you dealt with conflicts which are a crucial element of a volunteer board? --Arjunaraoc

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