Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused here for a moment, so I have to ask- Who is Abhishek Suryawanshi? I have started and ran the first few Delhi meetups, and never met or heard of Abhishek. Is he on the list? or can anyone give me his username? I'm curious. He mentions Ahmadabad too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AbhiSuryawanshi The story is filled with a lot of errors Wikipedia's Delhi office, the generalized Wiki Ambassador. Nothing new about the confusion between Wikimedia and Wikipedia - looks like this is something we'll all have to live with. :) ___ 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 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] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow
Anirudh, I wasn't referring to the pages, I was referring to the statement made. On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: The statement, Abroad, they have a page on each street and every good place, makes it sound like a Tourist Guide of sorts. Am I the only one who feels this way? Pages about streets and local buildings don't have to sound like tourist guides. They can be encyclopedic too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Sultan The articles above need some work with citations, however you will find numerous examples from Europe and North America where streets and local buildings have articles on them and their history. An example would be a project undertaken by Wikimedia UK called Monmouthpedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA Replicating this kind of project in an Indian city is possible, but may be difficult given the lack of coverage of minor topics in books and on the web. ___ 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 mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow
The statement, Abroad, they have a page on each street and every good place, makes it sound like a Tourist Guide of sorts. Am I the only one who feels this way? On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Published in HT City, New Delhi June 8, 2012 Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow If you think Wikipedia doesn’t have the real good stuff on Delhi or just doesn’t get the city right, tomorrow is your chance to change that. The open source knowledge website is holding a meet-up in Hauz Khas on Sunday, and everyone is welcome to pump up the information on the Capital in there. And not just the boring stuff. The representatives say they’re looking for bright, young people to join them in adding up more on the city’s cultural hubs, new landmarks, hangouts and historical hotspots. “People still have the wrong notion that Wikipedia has a set of permanent editors who put all the information there. Everything in there is written by users, and the more people we have from Delhi, the better a knowledge bank we’ll have on the city. Abroad, they have a page on each street and every good place,” says Abhishek Suryawanshi, Wiki ambassador. So, existing editors — ordinary users, that is, will guide the new editors who wish to debut at the meet. The informal session, which will be held at Wikipedia’s Delhi office — the only one in the world outside of the United States — will also see an open debate and discussion on what needs to be done to make Delhi look up on the website. “For example, we recently had a meet in Ahmedabad and discovered that there are not too many pictures of the city on the site. Within a week of the session, we had over a thousand photos up there!” says Suryawanshi. For all the questions on the credibility of the information on the encyclopedia, Suryawanshi has one answer. “Wikipedia is just a collection of quality references. We go ahead and put a fact in there irrespective of the contributor, as long as there’s a citable, reliable reference to go back to. Students and other users often say they’ve checked this or that on Wiki, but Wikipedia should not be quoted that way. It’s a start point to any research, not the end point,” he says. Catch it here What: Delhi Wikipedia Meetup When: June 10 Timings: 3pm - 6pm Entry: Free Where: Top floor, G-15, behind Hauz Khas G-Block Mkt (NOT the main Hauz Khas market) Nearest Metro Station: Hauz Khas on Yellow Line http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/867948.aspx ___ 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 -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: The statement, Abroad, they have a page on each street and every good place, makes it sound like a Tourist Guide of sorts. Am I the only one who feels this way? Pages about streets and local buildings don't have to sound like tourist guides. They can be encyclopedic too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masjid_Sultan The articles above need some work with citations, however you will find numerous examples from Europe and North America where streets and local buildings have articles on them and their history. An example would be a project undertaken by Wikimedia UK called Monmouthpedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA Replicating this kind of project in an Indian city is possible, but may be difficult given the lack of coverage of minor topics in books and on the web. ___ 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 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] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow
Replicating this kind of project in an Indian city is possible, but may be difficult given the lack of coverage of minor topics in books and on the web. That's the major issue we face on India related topics, especially on places. ___ 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
