Hello friends,
This is a link I recommend you to bookmark.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
This list is useful for outreach & also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in
a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this
list.:)
We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs:
* Andaman & Nicobar Islands
* Arunachal Pradesh
* Assam
* Chandigarh
* Chhattisgarh
* Dadra, Nagar & Haveli
* Daman & Diu
* Goa
* Himachal Pradesh
* Jammu & Kashmir
* Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai)
* Lakshadweep
* Manipur
* Meghalaya
* Mizoram
* Puducherry
* Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!)
* Nagaland
* Uttar Pradesh
* Uttarakhand
Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means
you too)!
Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for:
* Africa
* Australia
* Asia (other than India)
* Middle East
* North America
* South America
Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too.
May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic
language & city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as
comprehensible as possible.
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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Dear Wikipedians,
there has been request from an university team to conduct a workshop in
Bhopal. If you're interested (staying in Bhopal, or somewhere nearby) or,
please do mail me. Accommodations will be provided by the organising team.
Thanks!
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Regards,
Karthik Nadar.
(Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter).
A great achievement, three new Featured Pictures by an NRI user Yathin_sk.
This has been reported here in the Signpost :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18/Featur…
These are :
* Bull Indian Elephant in musth.
* Green peppercorn.
* Female Steenbok antelope.
Congrats, Yathin_sk!
AshLin
The page on "Women & gender issues" Task Force of WikiProject India was
created in Feb 2012. Thanks to a few editors, this page is now "start"
class ;) rather than stub.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Women_and_gender_i…
This is an appropriate time to request all those WikiProject India members
who participated in the Women's Day editathon to kindly enlist for this
task force.
We are also looking for a Volunteer coordinator (feminine volunteer
preferable) as the first volunteer coordinator for this task Force. The
volunteer coordinator's job is to coordinate editing efforts, encourage
editors and carry out housekeeping and general tender loving care of the
articles under the aegis of the task force.
The current list of articles under the TF can be found here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Indian_women_and_gender_i…
Needless to say, we expect the volunteer coordinator to cooperate with
Rohini Lakshane, the newly elected SIG of the Women's Issues for the Wikimedia
India chapter.
One may volunteer for this post by replying on this thread. Hoping to find
many members enlisting for the TF and volunteers for the post of
coordinator!
Warm regards,
AshLin
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A few online and offline events are being conducted in on the occasion of
International Women's Day on March 8. The events continue thereafter too as
March has been declared as Women's History Month.
There is a Wikipedia editing workshop in Goa on March 8 at Nirmala
Institute of Education from 3 pm to 5 pm. It is followed by an offline and
online editathon.
The online editathon is a month-long affair, which will be held every
weekend starting with the weekend after March 8. Details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_…
The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to contribute
to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in
Wikipedia. The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing
stubs and translating English articles to various Indian languages.
Members are requested to start edithons in regional language Wikipedias.
Regards,
Rohini Lakshane