Great idea, Naveen. Will do.
Hisham Mundol
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On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Naveen Francis wrote:
> Sure Hisham,
>
> Can you please ask all those who are involved in this project to keep {{User
> WikiProject India Education Program}} in there user page ?
>
> I have passed this message to few via following template.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:India_Education_Program/Invite
>
>
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> On 22 August 2011 09:14, Hisham Mundol <hmun...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the kind words, Naveen! I agree fully (though I may be slightly
> biased! :-)) ...Don't forget the superstar Campus Ambassadors!!! Details
> at WP:INDIAEDU! Send them some WikiLove as well!
>
> Hisham Mundol
>
> Wikimedia India Programs
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> On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Naveen Francis wrote:
>
>> There are many star students and star teachers from India Education
>> Programme.
>> Just loves how the program is turning out.
>>
>> Naveen Francis
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>> On 21 August 2011 17:44, Hari Prasad Nadig <hpna...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Pradeep Mohandas
>> <pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [..snip..]
>>
>> 5. After the round of introductions, Hisham Mundol from the Wikimedia
>> Foundation India office provided an update.
>> 5. a. He said that two members were added to office staff - Nitika Tandon
>> and Shiju Alex. Nitika would be working with the Pune Education Program.
>> Shiju will join them in the end of October.
>> 5. b. He said that the Educations Program was successful. They expected 250
>> students but have now got about 1000 students. They are working on how to
>> manage this larger than expected outcome. One of the things they are
>> considering is having more Campus Ambassadors in Pune.
>> 5. c. The office is also (hopefully) to be registered as a public trust
>> soon.Various options were considered before they reached this decision. They
>> are also looking for premises in the National Capital Region.
>>
>> (emphasis mine)
>>
>> This is big news!
>>
>> Thanks for the update, Pradeep.
>>
>> 5. d. Hisham introduced Nitika Tandon to the members present.
>> 6. Nitika provided an update on the India Education Programme.
>> 6. a. She said that she had recently taken up her work at posting in Pune.
>> 6. b. She has also been talking to 2-3 colleges in Pune but they have been
>> taking it slow since they have to manage the current student count.
>> 7. Hisham suggested that one of the star students is user:basic.atari
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Basic.atari) who has been great and
>> requested Mumbai community members to send him some wikilove. (How? - Once
>> you log in, click on the heart in the top right of the user page to whom you
>> want to send wikilove and be led through some steps to send people wikilove)
>> 8. Achal gave a small talk on Oral Citations project. We were (Again) not
>> able to show the video.
>> 8. a. Achal said that the Wikipedia before ~2004 did not have citations and
>> they grew as the Wikipedia project grew over the years.
>> 8. b. He said citations currently was currently done from the publications
>> industry which has stronger and wider presence in European and North
>> American countries.
>> 8. c. This combined with the limitations on what are rules on what could get
>> cited, could be one of the reasons for decrease in the growth of new editors
>> on Wikipedia.
>> 8. d. The limitation on citation and deletion of articles without good
>> citations turned off new Wikipedia users and also took away some of the
>> revolutionary ideas around which Wikipedia was born. Other form of citations
>> were thus to be considered.
>> 8. e. Wikipedians in India and South Africa worked on the Oral Citations
>> project - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations
>> 9. The meeting was concluded at 6 pm.
>>
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