Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have "Security fears"?
Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet Vidyasagar www.outofindia.net www.womenofindia.net INDIA: 91-99011 66276 USA: 1-301-649-2240 On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Anshuman Fotedar < anshuman.fote...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty > people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The > landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnath Temple, Nehru > Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani > Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants > proceeded to Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR where they were > shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by > using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. > > Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. > They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, > and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. > > Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr > Nagarjuna, Noopur Raval and Moksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. > Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed > anyone out. > > Do visit our maintenance category > WTM<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM>, > specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. > > Sincerely > Anshuman Fotedar > > PS: > > 1. > During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of > Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to > handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed. Pranav > and Aditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact > that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure > from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were > standing on the road, and not trespassing. To resolve the matter, Aditya, > Pranav and Krutikaa Jawanjal accompanied the security personnel to the > police station where they explained that they were within their rights to > do what they did, and that citizens of the country need not take prior > permission to take exterior photographs of private property that was not > accorded legal protection. The PSI on duty made a noting in his station > diary and informed us that Bombay House has security fears, which is why > one should speak to their bosses before taking pictures, but agreed with > them per se that there is no law that prohibits people from taking pictures > there. > > 2. > The group that went to Bombay House (and subsequently to Yazdani Bakery, > St. Thomas Cathedral) and other places was delayed owing to the incident > at Bombay House and discovered serendipitously that entry to INS Vikrant > was open. Covering Vikrant took a while, adding to the delay. Consequently > they (this includes me) never reached HBCSE but uploaded from home > instead. Although we did get several good contributions from the > participants in this group as well, I do recognise that it may have been > nice if we could have joined in with the participants who uploaded together > at HBCSE. I apologise. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list > wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum > >
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