hi, It seems like an instructive learning experience at so many levels - technical, photographical, legal etc. Thank you for sharing this here.
I hope all of you learnt while having fun! Please do more events like this! Pradeep Handheld On 30/01/2012, nikita belavate <niki8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hii All, > > Sorry for not been able to write in detail about the event yesterday. > > On 28th Morning, the participants arrived exactly at 8am. Few, who could > not arrive on time made it a point to inform one of us, about it. > We spoke to them about their preference of places to click which went on > Good. There after, around 8.45am people dispersed on respective routes. > > I along with three others covered the extreme north of churchgate( > Jogeshwari, Borivali and Dahisar ). While Karthik covered the Chatrapati > Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalay interiors besides other places and headed to > HBCSE for keeping the lab ready for participants with the tool installed. > Not many could make it to HBCSE though, owing to the distance. In all there > were 10 of us who reached there by 2.30pm. > > The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The > system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one > person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. > Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but > unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried > calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. After > this, we waited for sometime for the one person's upload to get over and > till then the others filled the data for the images. Two people > successfully uploaded images using 'Commonist' tool for mass upload. > The participants were comfortable with the process absolutely but the > problem was when they pressed 'UPLOAD'. It said, There is an 'unknown > error'. In order to overcome this, we tried to upload using the basic 5 > steps of upload in commons, but it showed the message, 'The files are > empty' !!! no idea How and Why this happened..! > > After trying this, Nagarjuna Sir sat with us for trying Python. And the > rest as he mentioned earlier in this thread: > "while running the script, it cribbed about 'missing module poster'. I > have installed it using pip. then another missing dependency was > python-pyexiv2. apt-get install python-pyexiv2 took care of this. > after that the script ran successfully". Took lot of time in getting the > script working though. > > However we could not run Python on other PCs since by the time it was post > 8pm. > We could only upload images of 4 people successfully. However this is > something to discuss as why the tools did not work as they should have > been. Partcipants left the campus by 7.30pm after copying the images on > desktop. > > Big Thanks to Nargarjun Sir for being there with us for the entire time > till 9pm in HBCSE and his efforts in upload procedure !! > > Besides, there are many people who helped in particular stages of the > event. Starting Noopur , Pranav, Moksh, Netra, Vickram uncle, > Dr.Nagarjuna, Kundan > Sir, Aditya and Krutika for attending the event. Also would like to make > mention of Ajit Sahu who created the logo for the event with just little > briefing. Thanks to ALL ! > > Warm Regards, > Nikita Belavate. > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, <wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> We seem to be called in to the cop station a bit too often - visit #2 for >> Wikipedia (1st was for WCI 11), this time it got better, taken in a Police >> Van to MRA Marg. The worst part, they dont drop you back, you need to make >> your own way :( >> >> The guards at Bombay House were pretty clear, we have orders not to allow >> photography on Homy Mody Street in front of the building for security >> reasons. Its odd that such orders are given in the first place, as public >> roads are not under their purview and we were certainly not trespassing >> their property. Aditya offered to delete the pics if they could show that >> its illegal, obviously they could not. Just because they are scared of >> terror threats, whoever gave the order seems to think they have the right >> to deny the public of their rights and curtail freedom. Talk about misuse >> of power. >> >> ------------------------------ >> From: apsengu...@gmail.com >> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:17 +0530 >> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> CC: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia >> Takes Mumbai II >> >> >> Harriet, >> >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia <outofin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> 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"? >> >> >> Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a >> "Prohibited Area", you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We >> saw >> quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are >> required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like >> anyone can put them up. >> >> Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their >> property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and >> polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a >> problem either). >> >> >> >> 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. 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