[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Mailing List for Delhi and NCR

2010-09-04 Thread theo10011
Hi everyone I wanted to announce the creation of a Wikimedia mailing list for Delhi, anyone in the Delhi and NCR region is welcomed to join the list. It will be used to organize local meetups in future and keep Delhi Wikimedians updated about any developments in the Wikimedia movement. We will

[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing the Delhi Meetup

2010-09-15 Thread theo10011
Hi everyone I would like to announce the First Delhi Wikipedia/Wikimedia Meetup on Wednesday, September 22 at 6.00PM/1800 IST. The venue has been chosen as the Cha Bar at Oxford Bookstore in the Statesman House Building, Barakhamba Road, Connaught Place. There is more information available at the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Mid-Day coverage

2010-09-20 Thread theo10011
I would suggest not to take it personally, I dont know who Priyanka Prachad is, I dont think shes even attending the Delhi Meet. She's not on the sign-up page from what I see and does not speak for the Delhi community. lol..so does that mean we are all competing for our cities, I didnt get

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Mid-Day coverage

2010-09-20 Thread theo10011
Tinu Cherian On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:43 AM, theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I would suggest not to take it personally, I dont know who Priyanka Prachad is, I dont think shes even attending the Delhi Meet. She's not on the sign-up page from what I see and does not speak for the Delhi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Mid-Day coverage

2010-09-20 Thread theo10011
Thank you Sir. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: All is well :) Btw All the best for the Delhi Meetup tommorrow. Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:01 AM, theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I understand that Tinu, I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question for Hindi Wikipedians

2010-09-21 Thread theo10011
I agree theres a bunch of reasons. First Hindi is dominant in only half the country, its has 400-500 million speaker in India, around half the total population. Its especially dominant in North India, where economic factors and technological divide also come into play. the educated metropolitan

[Wikimediaindia-l] Delhi Meetup

2010-09-23 Thread theo10011
Hi all The first Wikipedia Delhi Meet was organized yesterday, despite a constant downpour and some Venue issues 14 Delhi-hites braved the monsoon to reach the meetup. We had to shift the venue to another location across the street because of some scheduling issues at the last minute. We only

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Events invited for 10th Wikipedia anniversary

2010-11-06 Thread theo10011
Thanks Pradeep, we will be working on supporting the 10th anniversary celebrations across India, so if anyone wants to take the lead and organize Parties, events, get-together in their own city, please feel free to take the initiative and start planning something, we will do our best to support

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 2010 Fundraiser - Contribute Campaign

2010-11-09 Thread theo10011
I miss it during the holidays? - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: theo10011 de10...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cultural differences with Indian newcomers

2010-11-20 Thread theo10011
Interesting point Srikanth, we can address part of the issue. I propose something like Don't bite the newcomers page, pref. located on Meta where new Wikimedians especially the ones from India can ask question to more experienced editors. It would be along the lines of Admin noticeboard, RfC page

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cultural differences with Indian newcomers

2010-11-20 Thread theo10011
Salmaan On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:48 PM, theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting point Srikanth, we can address part of the issue. I propose something like Don't bite the newcomers page, pref. located

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cultural differences with Indian newcomers

2010-11-20 Thread theo10011
, theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting point Srikanth, we can address part of the issue. I propose something like Don't bite the newcomers page, pref. located on Meta where new Wikimedians especially the ones from India can ask question to more experienced editors. It would be along

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cultural differences with Indian newcomers

2010-11-20 Thread theo10011
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:03 AM, theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I beg to differ Anirudh, the issue is that the newbies don't know of WP:HD or any other place was the reason I suggested the page. Finding out

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jimmy+ Commons images in December Digit

2010-12-18 Thread Theo10011
Ya the magazine is one of several nationwide tech magazine that include DVD with random freeware/shareware/demo content. Copyright and trademark are already hard to enforce as it is in India, content on free DVDs might be even harder. I think we should consider it as free promotion, and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Anniversary event in Hyderabad

2011-01-11 Thread theo10011
Steven Its a common issue with marketing companies like this. The event is for 17th January, I think we should delete the page altogether, there's no sense in promoting something this exploitative on the wrong day. I recall there were some Wikipedians from Hyderabad, but not sure if thats one of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Wikimedia Chapter Registered

2011-01-14 Thread theo10011
Congratulations from New Delhi. Salmaan Haroon User:Theo10011 On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:49 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Feel free to express you views at the comments section http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished Regards Tinu Cherian On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikimediaIndia-l list description

2011-02-01 Thread Theo10011
I kind of agree with Achal on this one, the description should be changed to be as inclusive as possible. It's topics related to India, Indic languages might be considered a subset of the overall plan but it's not the only focus of this list, or am I wrong in assuming that? It seems ironic to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Communication from the Executive Committee regarding first meeting

2011-02-06 Thread Theo10011
Ahh, wasn't the chapter registered less than a month ago Tinu? I don't know more than half the people from the chapter but I think you're being awfully presumptuous in claiming that the executive members keep electing each other. I thought this was the founding group, the registered entity has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Welcome to the Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

2011-02-09 Thread Theo10011
Hi Pradeep Ahh.Why are you forwarding your welcome note and the password to the list ? On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Pardeep Dogra pardeep...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: 9 February 2011 18:13

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason

2011-02-12 Thread Theo10011
Unified Login or SUL (Single User Login) is a mechanism which allows users to use a single global login on most of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. It allows to maintain a consistent identity across all linked projects, and no you necessarily don't have to login manually to each Wiki. You

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-12 Thread Theo10011
I have no idea what's been happening lately on the mailing list. Please keep it civil, this is getting rude and inappropriate for a national list. It would be archived and viewed by many others, please do bear that in mind. User:Theo10011 On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Casey Brown

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] wikimedia india mailing list, what is it about ?

2011-02-12 Thread Theo10011
This has been discussed previously to some extent, the list is for any and all Wikimedia related activities in India. The list is intended to be as inclusive as possible. This is a national mailing list for a country of a billion people, it really shouldn't need an explanation in my opinion.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l

2011-02-13 Thread Theo10011
, I think you as a steward should be the voice of reason in this, feel free to ask questions directly and if the chapter doesn't reply then it should reflect on them, but please don't let this list be overtaken by these questions. There are others things besides the chapter. Theo10011 On Mon, Feb

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SOS tech support request from mr-wiki, Unable to access mr wikipedia and mr wiktionary

2011-02-18 Thread Theo10011
Ok, It seems to be working now. You'll have to purge the cache once if you are still having issues. By pressing, ctrl+shift+r on chrome/firefox. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I have contacted the team and informed them

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mr-wiki, accessibility issue Thanks for support

2011-02-19 Thread Theo10011
to access mr.wikipedia, I still need tp check mr wiktionary I suppose that also would be working. Thanks and Regards -Vijay 1. Re: SOS tech support request from mr-wiki, Unable to access mr wikipedia and mr wiktionary (Theo10011) 2. Re: SOS tech support request from mr-wiki, Unable

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !

2011-02-25 Thread Theo10011
heh, this seems like a gross over-reaction to a facebook post. You are giving this person undue attention by even mentioning this in a publicly archived mailing list. If the foundation were to pay attention to every random forum posting or allegations like this it would never find the time to do

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs IRC : Thursday April 7th 2011 @ 8pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office

2011-04-07 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Folks As I had mentioned earlier, we're having a monthly IRC meeting on India Programs on the 1st Thursday of every month. Please do join the IRC

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] India Programs IRC : Thursday May5th 2011 @ 8pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office

2011-05-05 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Folks (cross-posting to reach all-India; apologies if you get multiple messages.) Our regular monthly IRC on India Programs is on the 1st Thursday of every month. Please do join in this evening (details are in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] India Programs IRC : Thursday May5th 2011 @ 8pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office

2011-05-05 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Folks (cross-posting to reach all-India; apologies if you get multiple messages.) Our regular monthly IRC on India Programs is on the 1st

[Wikimediaindia-l] Support from Karnataka Gov. and Samskrita Bharati

2011-05-14 Thread Theo10011
Hi The issue about a 1 Cr. grant from Karnataka government for Sanskrit wikipedia was brought up on this list earlier, last year. I saw this recent discussion on Sanskrit Wikipedia between a couple of editors about that grant and support from Samskrita Bharati, have their been any new

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for picture of the year

2011-06-01 Thread Theo10011
Thanks. It didn't render well on my mobile, so I had trouble reading your comments. Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry Theo10011, I have some problems in my eyes. That's why had my fonts bigger. Now reduced the sizes. Sorry

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for picture of the year

2011-06-01 Thread Theo10011
Yup, now I can. Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: @Theo10011, Can you read now well? *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 13:18, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. It didn't

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs IRC : Thursday June 2nd 2011 @ 9pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office

2011-06-02 Thread Theo10011
Just a reminder, this meeting is scheduled in #wikimedia-office in approximately half an hour. Instructions for joining can be found on: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. This IRC hour will be logged as usual and uploaded at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.in Wiki rework complete.

2011-06-04 Thread Theo10011
Hi Arjun I have a question, this domain name- http://wikimedia.in/ appears to be an earlier place-holder ('work in progress') for the Indian chapter which forks over to the wiki and a link to the mailing list. If the chapter does indeed own it, can someone forward it to -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Join Wikimedia Delhi chapter

2011-06-05 Thread Theo10011
Regardless of my opinion on this, I wanted to fill in those reading this. Vibhijain, aged 13 according to his userpage [1] joined WMF projects about 3 months ago, in that time, he has requested sysops on 2 or 3 indic-language projects, crat rights, bot rights, inquired about oversight rights and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Delhi Chapter

2011-06-05 Thread Theo10011
You are not articulating your position quite well here. There already is a national chapter. Sub-national chapters aren't very common. Can someone else from your supporters speak up? Mayur, are you reading this? I left a message on your page on hi.wiki about his wikimania bid a couple of weeks

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 36, Issue 19

2011-06-05 Thread Theo10011
things work. Regards Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Vibhi Jain vibhij...@yahoo.in wrote: Well as it comes to age, i do not think that its a barrier here. As it comes to sysop rights, i am the largest contributor to sa wiki and to pi wiki, where I am a sysop. Well for your

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Theo10011
I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Theo10011
for the word conference. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list

2011-06-19 Thread Theo10011
in distinctiveness. May be we should think about adding the year as well (in full eg:2011 instead of 11). Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ashwin. I understand, let me know if you need my help. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India wiki re-design

2011-07-04 Thread Theo10011
Hi Anirudh I brought up the issue with wikimedia.in domain earlier, why not have it redirect to the wiki itself and add a section for blog/news on wiki. It would seem like there would be a lot of redundancy between the two, and it would only require more work to update both separately. Either

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India wiki re-design

2011-07-04 Thread Theo10011
to be here, but if i shouldn't please say so and i will leave. _ Béria Lima Wikimedia Portugal Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer. 2011/7/4 Theo10011 de10

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lobbing Wikipedia to customers stuck in the craw with fake Lobster Salad!

2011-08-12 Thread Theo10011
Hilarious indeed. Thanks for the link Ashwin. Theo On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Truly hilarious! A store in New York uses jugglery in language and extracts from a Wikipedia article to justify its selling Lobster salad for 15 years without

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs-Monthly IRC: Welcoming Nitika Shiju - Thursday August 25th @ 9pm IST (#wikimedia-office)

2011-08-25 Thread Theo10011
Just a reminder. This meeting is happening in #wikimedia-office in about 15 minutes. More details on how to join in the original message. As usual, the logs would be put up on Meta after the meeting. See [ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours] for logs and help on how to join. Regards

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs-Monthly IRC: Welcoming Nitika Shiju - Thursday August 25th @ 9pm IST (#wikimedia-office)

2011-08-25 Thread Theo10011
/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_programs/meetings On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Just a reminder. This meeting is happening in #wikimedia-office in about 15 minutes. More details on how to join in the original message. As usual, the logs would be put up on Meta after

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

2011-08-26 Thread Theo10011
Gautam and the organizing committee for the election, it might make sense in extending the last date for nomination. The window for nomination hasn't been open for long, it might make sense in extending it for a while so more Wikimedians can hear about it. Regards Theo On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] wikipedia hacks book

2011-09-23 Thread Theo10011
There is at least half a dozen implication of 'hack' depending on the context. I have no idea what you mean by a 'Wikipedia hack'. Theo 2011/9/23 రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ nani1o...@gmail.com I tend to take the meaning of hack as told in this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(hobby)

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

2011-10-02 Thread Theo10011
Thanks for all the great work Gautam. You have always been the voice of reason in most discussions I have seen, and I probably didn't even see half of it since we never had the chance to meet in person. I hope you still remain vocal in the India community, your voice would be sorely missed from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Feedback please: Logo concepts for India Hackathon

2011-10-06 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: ”we have had the discussions here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004547.html That is the discussion about the Wikiconference logo, correct me if I'm wrong, Hackathon and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Feedback please: Logo concepts for India Hackathon

2011-10-06 Thread Theo10011
, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 6 October 2011 19:01, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: In all that, I have not seen the Hackathon logo discussed once, besides Gerard linking to it in the middle of the discussion. So I ask again, where have we had

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-14 Thread Theo10011
Hi Nitika All the consideration aside for the Brilliant army. I clicked on a couple of articles on your list, and then found an interesting pattern. Did you check any of these yourself? In case you didn't, I updated the list for you. Most of the articles that don't have a comment in the list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-14 Thread Theo10011
With all due respect Bishakha, I beg to differ. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: As for the highs and lows, ups and downs, failures and successes, allow us to decide

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-14 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: As for starting Wiki editing you might want to start yourself. I suggest your userpage on Meta, which if I recall I told you to create a month

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

2011-11-28 Thread Theo10011
I really didn't read the entire thread to have a lot of comments, I just have one point I noticed that I wanted to ask - Why is Tory Read conducting the evaluative study? As I recall, her only exposure to India and Wikipedia before this was the research project. And even that had nothing to do

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-del] Hindi Wikipedians Meetup in New Delhi

2011-11-29 Thread Theo10011
I hope this went well? I didn't see any information on wiki or mailing lists about it. Mayur might have sent it to the wrong mailing list, I don't see his mail in Wikimediaindia archives. Theo -- Forwarded message -- From: mayur mayur...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at

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

2011-11-29 Thread Theo10011
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I really didn't read the entire thread to have a lot of comments, I just have one point I noticed that I wanted to ask - Why is Tory Read

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] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

2011-12-19 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available in Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from Tamilnadu. See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png A

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

2011-12-19 Thread Theo10011
Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on every article lists the version of that article available in different languages. Regards Theo On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar ravidre

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

2011-12-19 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Theo, Clearly, links in sidebars are not getting enough eyeballs. It is also hard to look for one's own language when there are too many interwiki links. Unless you are intentionally looking for it, it is hard to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pre-announcement for Wikiwomen camp/conference in Argentina

2011-12-19 Thread Theo10011
Congrats. It seems like a great initiative, Noopur. :) I saw Beria was working on the pages for this on Meta. Good luck! Regards Theo On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Just keeping you posted if you haven't seen the IRC log yet. A couple of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mailing list Guidelines

2012-01-04 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 15:14, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Do any other Wikipedia lists have such guidelines which we can 'get inspired' by?

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Analysis of IEP: Quantitative Analysis Tory Read's Report

2012-01-25 Thread Theo10011
I see Tory responding to end her engagement on the issue, 2-4 days after she started responding on the talk page. I see a total of 4 edits from her this month, on the issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program/Analysis/Independent_Report_from_Tory_Read I left a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] General congrats and some data

2012-01-29 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I'd like to add that your efforts are working, though the data I have is a bit imperfect and has some reliability issues. I measured the share of total edits to all Wikipedia projects from India in July 2010 (in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Analysis of IEP: Quantitative Analysis Tory Read's Report

2012-01-29 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: I found Tory's report neutral, informative, exhaustive and professional. Since this issue involves people from all spheres of Wikipedia movement, I feel it is wise that she was chosen to do this to given an objective

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] , [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II

2012-01-31 Thread Theo10011
This sounds like an odd advice starting from someone asking about simultaneous image upload to commons. Nikita, you can use a tool like the commonist for simultaneous upload - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Commonist or ask an admin in #wikimedia-commons I'm not sure why you

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikipedia query

2012-02-06 Thread Theo10011
Let's see, first, there is WP:COI, conflict of interest, since this person is promoting his own magazine or one he works for, editing a page about his magazine or company is strongly discouraged. Of course that won't deter him, I suppose IP range of parent organization is the IP address or the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : First Post : Good News: Indians most willing to donate to Wikipedia

2012-02-06 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Just a question. The 'study' mentioned at the bottom of the page. Was it the one done by Oliver Keyes of the foundation? Oliver? huh, why on earth would it be done by Oliver Keyes of the foundation? That's

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Letters of authority or press cards (was: Backup for Wikipedians)

2012-02-06 Thread Theo10011
Great suggestion Fae. As Srikanth correctly pointed it out, such an ID would be under the content scope, which neither the chapter or the WMF India operations have any jurisdiction over. I remember a couple of years ago, Wikinews tried this for their active editors, offering to print them

[Wikimediaindia-l] Live Search

2012-02-28 Thread Theo10011
Hi I just saw this Live search project http://live.wikimedia.in/ supported by Wikimedia India. I was travelling recently, so I must have missed the announcements for it. Can someone fill me in about how this came to be? This looks like an excellent project, the chapter did an outstanding job

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Great NITT fiasco ...

2012-02-28 Thread Theo10011
This is getting a bit silly guys. There is no huge issue here, from what I read, some volunteers were treated badly, I am sorry for everyone involved. But let's move on, stuff like this happens all across the world. Learn what you can from it, and try to avoid them. All this is going into larger

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Great NITT fiasco ...

2012-02-28 Thread Theo10011
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: So, why didn't they understand? What went wrong? You admitted that you didn't prepare in advance. Also, do you want help with making easier-understandable presentations? I want that analysis in this mail and not a report on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Great NITT fiasco ...

2012-02-28 Thread Theo10011
for doing this in a reasonable manner. I know I'm no poster-child for reasonable discourse, but this is not how self-evaluations should go. Lets just relax a bit. This does not require urgent attention and this level of scrutiny. Regards Theo On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Theo10011 de10

[Wikimediaindia-l] India-l

2012-03-02 Thread Theo10011
Hi I was looking through the mailing lists, and I saw this list called India-l. It seems to have only staff members subscribed. This was created recently by Melanie Brown, so I am assuming good faith and asking if I missed the announcement or it is forthcoming? Can someone clarify- * If the list

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

2012-03-07 Thread Theo10011
Hi Shiju On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Shiju, you and Subhashish have been volunteers but now you are paid contractors hired by the Foundation. Any work you do within the purview of your contractual relationship with the Foundation will be work as

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

2012-03-07 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:37 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Everyone is encouraged to volunteer for the chapter , regardless of what his or her day job is. There is nothing that prevents even a foundation staff or contractor even being the board member of the chapter ,

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

2012-03-07 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: If it matters, if you have read the MoA or the Chapters agreement of the Wikimedia India Chapter or most of the chapters, the Foundation and Chapters are independent organizations. Wikimedia Foundation is NOT a

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

2012-03-07 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: You are a long time community member, you were working as Wikimedia Foundation paid contractor for some time, does that mean all the volunteer work you would have done before/after or during being a full time and

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

2012-03-07 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:24 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Theo, * Err... I have no idea who or what implied that. * On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: You are a long time community member, you were working as Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] RFC over hindi wiki bureaucrat actions

2012-03-09 Thread Theo10011
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: All, Please note that hindi wikipedia's bureaucrats has been removed temporarily for concerns over improper rights management, transparency of the actions and possible privacy violations due to the rights that was

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)

2012-03-23 Thread Theo10011
This was all getting a bit complicated. I made those sub-pages earlier so the content can scale, I was also trying to keep the Indian IRC hours separate from the usual WMF IRC office hours. I reorganized things a bit. The meetings page is now a template that transcludes to other locations, the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia to be free on mobiles in Africa, Middle East (SciDev.net)

2012-04-13 Thread Theo10011
Hi Barry I have to say I'm a bit surprised reading this mail from you. I really don't care about what the issue is, and what side you or anyone is, but this is not the way to address and answer feedback and queries that I've heard from others a hundred times. This is not the kind of professional

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia to be free on mobiles in Africa, Middle East (SciDev.net)

2012-04-13 Thread Theo10011
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Programs/Appreciations_and_Feedback Best, Barry On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Barry I have to say I'm a bit surprised reading this mail from you. I really don't care about what the issue is, and what side you or anyone

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] on WCI, the report, and more

2012-05-25 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.comwrote: Pradeep maintains a personal blog and wrote up his thoughts on the WCI report earlier shared with this list: http://pradx.me/2012/05/22/**wikiconference-india-2011-**

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] on WCI, the report, and more

2012-05-25 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: Pradeep's post brought up some immediate and broader questions for me, which I've put up on his blog. Also reproducing them here, simply because I don't think we should under-estimate what his post means. That

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] on WCI, the report, and more

2012-05-27 Thread Theo10011
Hi Bishakha On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bishakha I am not sure if you are intentionally leaving out Pranav or if that was an oversight. Not sure what you mean

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Social Media Pilot

2012-05-30 Thread Theo10011
Greetings, fellow FB'ers!! A couple of points. I mentioned this before on IRC, why is Social Media and FB being used by the India operations? If this is an initiative by WMF, I would have thought it could have been taken on from SF. Expert opinions about Why Facebook aside, this pilot program

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Social Media Pilot

2012-05-30 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: As always Theo, thank you for your incisive analytical insights. Assuming one were to use social media for outreach, how would you do it differently? Thank you. And you are Welcome. :) I won't do it actually. As

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Social Media Pilot

2012-05-30 Thread Theo10011
Hi Arun On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Theo, If we are trying something in India that chaps in SF have not concentrated on, i would not necessarily label it as a negative approach. Gut instinct tells me that fb, twitter outreach might be more

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Pilot

2012-06-19 Thread Theo10011
IEP will be moving things to Simple Wiki I see, I wonder who suggested this, in March - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program/Analysis/Independent_Report_from_Tory_Read#Simple_english_wiki Or else, this could be the result of exhaustive internal quantitative,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Server error

2012-07-05 Thread Theo10011
What are you guys talking about? That looks like a squid error. It really depends on the time and frequency of when it happens, maybe there was a problem with the proxies, or a minor server issue or some query that didn't close, it doesn't seem to be widespread from what I know. Please clear your

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Server error

2012-07-05 Thread Theo10011
in no time. PFA the screenshot of the same. On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: What are you guys talking about? That looks like a squid error. It really depends on the time and frequency of when it happens, maybe there was a problem with the proxies

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Server error

2012-07-05 Thread Theo10011
Things are back to normal. Db issues, they have been resolved for now. Regards Theo On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Ya guys, that is completely unrelated to the outage now. There was a db error half an hour ago that locked up the database on most projects

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] An adieu to the Wikimedia India Movement

2012-07-28 Thread Theo10011
I just saw this thread, sorry for reviving it. I had something I wanted to say. First, I'm sure this was incidental, but I can't be the first one who noticed this A-Team reference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIfuaUTH9Y4 (There was a recent movie too, but most anglophones think of that show

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India

2012-11-05 Thread Theo10011
This was a great initiative by such a young group of volunteers - Karthik, Naveen and everyone involved, a big Thank you and Congratulations, for getting this done. India desperately needed to be included in WLM, I hope you can keep up the momentum. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Arjuna Rao

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India

2012-11-05 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Momentum would always be there. Indian community should start some project, which then the world to follows us. That achievement would be very proud-ful :) Agreed. Why don't you or someone in the new class of 2012

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages

2012-11-14 Thread Theo10011
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: If he didn't explain it, then you can presume that it's wrong. There's nothing to discuss, and there's nothing wrong with saying Indic languages. Heh, I didn't know you became a cultural authority on what

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic languages (was Re: Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages)

2012-11-14 Thread Theo10011
This is getting rather silly. Amir might not realize that he is flirting with some political undertones, with his argument, but is also the same stance on the word that I've had against Anirudh'd characterization. I might have had a brief discussion with Anirudh about this a couple of years ago,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Universal Language Selector

2012-11-14 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:35 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Apology: I am not from Indus Valley and not even a north Indian; I don't know whether I am allowed to write here. ;-) Anyway I am posting because this may affect so many languages, including those True Indian Indus Vally

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

2013-01-03 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: The same question could be asked of any collective with a Wikipedia related goal. However, it could also be asked if in the Wikiverse (which supremely thrives on the value of collaborative work), it is inappropriate or

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