Thanks a lot for this Shyamal, this really helps out and will be instrumental in getting Institutional partnerships.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:46 PM, L. Shyamal <lshya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to take off on Ashwin's suggestion. IISc which as an organization was > the first in the country to have an Intranet and Internet long before most > others had heard of email has perhaps done reasonably well with Wikipedia > contribution even if it has been in a small and quiet way with editors here > and there. For a while I tried to keep an eye on the key science orgs in > Bangalore and their contributions (unfortunately I could only work on the > anonymous IP edits) and it was quite clear that there was no inability to > contribute on the technical front. I suspect however that few really > contributed in a substantial way - although I know of exceptions, like > User:ABhadra (a student of Prof R. Gadagkar who produced a fairly > substantial review of Ropalidia marginata, their research subject). These > institutional IPs however change but I think it is quite interesting to see > how the edits relate or not relate to their academic interests. > Surprisingly even within these academic islands, there is a lot of > parochial and self-identity related contributions - things to do with caste > for instance. Perhaps someone could consider a project with the WMF to > analyze (properly anonymized) data on edits from within Indian academia to > make a more meaningful survey of our potential "expert" editors. For a > taste of how these edits can look like you can see an old set of IPs and > their contributions > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal/sandbox#Indian_Academia.21 > > best wishes > Shyamal > >> ------------------------------ >> >> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:25:42 +0530 >> From: Ashwin Baindur >> >> >> Hi Tejaswini, >> >> perhaps its time for a pilot with a more receptive organisation in >> Bangalore? Which organisation is your professor in? IISc? >> >> Ashwin >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations>
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